Win 7 restore - impressive

Zirax · 21-03-2010, 01:14

Now I have to say I am quite impressed with win 7 from using for a few months. The other day one of my old 300gb hdds died but I could carry on as it was in raid 1.

The worst job of all beckoned..... the dreaded reinstall

So I thought I would see what tricks win 7 has up it's sleeve. I used the restore feature and created an image in about 30 secs of the c drive. Then whipped out the remaining 300gb hdd (manufacture date 2005 so it's getting on) and installed the new drives.

After 10 mins fiddling due to the case, I turn the machine back on, insert the restore cd and within 15mins from start to finish (inc hdd install time) I am back on the desktop with all programs configured correctly.

I've gotta say from a stock windows image program that is bloody impressive!

21-03-2010, 01:14	#1
Zirax Goes up to 11! Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 4,577	Win 7 restore - impressive Now I have to say I am quite impressed with win 7 from using for a few months. The other day one of my old 300gb hdds died but I could carry on as it was in raid 1. The worst job of all beckoned..... the dreaded reinstall So I thought I would see what tricks win 7 has up it's sleeve. I used the restore feature and created an image in about 30 secs of the c drive. Then whipped out the remaining 300gb hdd (manufacture date 2005 so it's getting on) and installed the new drives. After 10 mins fiddling due to the case, I turn the machine back on, insert the restore cd and within 15mins from start to finish (inc hdd install time) I am back on the desktop with all programs configured correctly. I've gotta say from a stock windows image program that is bloody impressive!