Comments on: Using Windows 7 Image Backup Tool

By: Nicholas Piazza

Nicholas Piazza — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:13:30 +0000

I would like for the Windows 7 Image Backup to be upgraded to support backing up to Blu-Ray discs. This would provide the ability to backup about 25 GB per disc.

By: W7 Zerg

W7 Zerg — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:16:02 +0000

I installed 7 this evening and it took 30 minutes and I don’t have a single missing device in device manager after a clean install on an Nvidia motherboard!

I’m planning on getting the manufacturer Drivers installed and trying this out so I have a clean backup to start from while I test.

Thanks for this guide!

By: bbqchickenrobot

bbqchickenrobot — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:24:26 +0000

Used this is as well last night. It ran moderately quickly and backed up my system drive to my RAID drive without a hitch! All the while I was running Visual Studio, WMP + several other applications without any slowdown on my system.

If your system is slow, it could be due to your hardware. Don’t be quick to blame windows for that. My boot times are great and I have zero lag on my machine at all.

For those curious, my system specs are as follows:

ASUS M4A79 Deluxe Mobo (790FX and SB750)
AMD Phenom II 940 BE 3.0Ghz running at stock speed and voltage
Corsair Dominator DDRII 1066 8GB @ 4×2GB
ATI Radeon 9870 1GB GDDR5 (x1)
WD Raptor 10k RPM 75GB System Drive (x1)
WD 1TB Data/Backup Drive (x2 in RAID)
Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate
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Absolutely hums along without issue. Love this setup. Coming from Windows XP => Vista => Windows 7 and by far it’s the best yest IMO.

By: magicbirds

magicbirds — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:34:25 +0000

This Windows 7 Create Backup Image is causing the computer to run so slowly that the computer totally is unusable! Windows 7 by itself is totally unusable because it’s way too slow! This is not acceptable! Windows 7 Sync Center is also slowing down the system too much!

By: Philip

Philip — Tue, 19 May 2009 22:44:14 +0000

Keep in mind that you can always rename the previous backup directory if you wish to create a 2nd image.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:15:54 +0000

I have created an image with success a few days ago with success.
In addition, I have used the restore function as well to test it, using the boot disc created by the application, and the restore has worked out very well without any problems!
However, it seems to be impossible to create ANOTHER image afterwards without destroying the first one!
It is apparently not possible to define a subfolder in which you can put all new images, This is a nice feature of for instance True Image: you can either create a complete new image or an incremental one.
Will this feature be available in the next versions of the backup-restore feature of W7?? I hope so…

For the rest I am quite enthusiastic about Windows 7: it is fast and seems to be quite stable!