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Making your first Backup In the event that your hard drive which your operating system is stored on becomes unavailable (I am assuming it is your Drive C: ), it would stand to reason that the backup image you take of your operating system; exist on a separate disk drive (such as Drive E:,etc) to enable you to have a reliable backup you can use to recovery your system. My suggestion is to go and buy an external USB hard drive (Maxtor brand is one of my favorites) from your local computer store such as BestBuy, and attach it to your PC. When picking the size of hard drive you need to buy, try and make it 3 times bigger then your Drive C: . For instance, if the Drive C: is 80 GB, try and locate a 240GB drive. I suggest this, because having the extra space will allow you to keep multiple versions of backup images if you ever need to rely on a previous version for recovery. As I said earlier in the System Requirements you could also buy an internal hard drive or even store your image on a network drive, but for the sake of this tutorial, we will be using an external USB hard drive to store our backup images (which will be referred to as Drive E: ). Finally, I highly recommend that your external drive use an NTFS filesystem, rather then a FAT32 based filesystem. If you are unsure if you have an NTFS filesystem or wish to understand how to convert to an NTFS filesystem, please refer to the Converting to NTFS section. Once you have confirmed your external drive is using NTFS, double click the DriveImage XML icon located on your desktop to launch the application (click screenshot to enlarge): |
On the Welcome screen, in the lower right hand corner click Backup |
On the Backup screen, you will be asked to pick the drive letter you wish to back up. Single click the C: drive and click Next |
On the Welcome screen for the Backup Wizard, click on Next |
You are then prompted to select a destination for your backup image. Browse to your E: drive (note your drive letter may be different. In my example, my drive letter is E: ) and click OK. |
Unclick the Split files option, click Compressed option and ensure Try Volume Shadow Services first is selected. Click on Next |
DriveImage XML will begin the backup process. Depending on the size of your C: drive, you may have to wait anywhere from several minutes to several hours. Once your backup is finished, click Finish |
Congratulations, you have made your first backup with DriveImage XML ! |
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