MCTS 70-680: Windows7 Bare Metal Restore using a system image

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This video looks at restoring your Windows 7 using a system image saved to the network using Windows Backup and Restore. Check out http://YouTube.com/ITFreeTraining or http://itfreetraining.com for more of our always free training videos. In this case, the original image is taken from a Hyper-V virtual machine and then restored to a VMware virtual machine. Both virtual machines have different hardware and the restore is a Bare Metal Restore to different hardware. Demonstration 01:45 To be able to recover Windows 7 using Backup and Restore, you need to ensure that the backup you performed had a system image included or you manually created a system image. A system image will save all the file and folders on the hard disk to a VHD file. Backup and Restore also supports a file and folder style backup. Because of this, the system image could be used to recover your operating system. If there were changes made to the user documents file since the system image was performed and the File and Folder style backup was run, this backup can be used to restore the user files while the system image can be used to restore the operating system. This video will look at using both to restore the operating system. It should be pointed out however, if your system image backup is up to date, this is the only backup that you need to use to restore the system. Demo Backups in Windows 7 are done using the Backup and Restore utility. This can be found in the control panel under "system and security." A system image backup can be included in a backup or can be performed manually by selecting the option on the left hand side, "create a system image backup." In this video, a system image is saved to the network. When saving a system image to the network, the one image file can only support one backup instance. This is because this feature required some features of NTFS that are not supported when connecting to a network share. In other words, incremental changes to the system image are not recorded. A system image performed over the network will only contain the one system image with the files from the last time it was run. If you were to the save the system image on a drive that had NTFS, a history of system images would be present with the number of revisions depending on how much space the hard disk had. To restore the operating system on another computer with different hardware, you need software to boot the computer. In Backup and Restore you can create a system repair disc. If you have the original Windows 7 DVD, you can use that to boot and select the option "repair your computer" on the welcome screen. Regardless of whether you use the repair disc or the Windows 7 disc, select the option from the system recovery options to restore your computer using a system image that you created earlier. Once you browse to the system image, it will be used to recover your computer. Once the system image has been copied to the new computer, you can also restore additional user documents that have been backed up using the file and folder backup. If Backup and Restore can't restore particular files because they are in use, logout and login as another user and perform the restore using that user.

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  1. administrator pass : mấy
  2. bạn ơi
  3. I try step by step but nothing, can read my patition where I have the back up , I have 47gb but can t open it! any Idea why I can restore my back I lost my pc but I have External hard drive where I have the back up thanl u Javier
  4. I know how to do all this but for the life of me i can't find the correct driver! I have my computer connected via ethernet but i have no clue where to find the driver to use to actually start the restore! All i know is system32/drivers/.
  5. Hello! I have 2 servers 2012. on DC1 I run the backup everyday, so everyday it updates the same file with the new files. When I try to restore in the DC2, it says that it doesn't have any backup. How can I solve this? I'm afraid that if my server fails, I won't be able to recover the data from another server. Thanks
  6. in 8:30 in what file location is the backup??
  7. PASSWORD???
  8. This is well and good if you made a backup on a network share. Not everyone has that. I made a backup to a second internal hard drive, and Windows 7 still can't find it.

    How do I get Windows 7 Recovery to detect a WindowsImageBackup on an attached internal HDD if I get the same error as you do at 7:22? I can browse to the folder in Command Prompt or when searching drivers, and I can load filed from the image within a new install of Windows, but I can't get Recovery to read it for a BMR.
  9. great video Thanks 
    but i got a problem and hopefully some one can help me 
    this is the situation i created a vhd of my full windows server 2008 R2 and it was automatically updated daily now after about 3 years my dell power edge t310 crashed and cant boot so i chec the perc raid conroller and my Raid 5 id degrated i go ahead and shutdown my system and replace the HDD now i try to go to F8 and select image recovery and the system crash so i decide to wipe the raid and recreate it and then use my windows server 2008 os disc to boot to recovery mode i go in and try to restore from the external usb where the image is but for some reason i cant see the backup it does not see any drive ????
    can some one help me plssssss...............

    Thanks
  10. If i restore one image to multiple computers, How do i activate those other computers?I do have brand new retail keys for it but It keeps saying that the windows key cannot be used even though they are brand new keys from the box. I even removed my old key from them by using the slmgr -upk command. Please help. Thanks
  11. You guys should do this professionally, I would pay for such video tutorials in a hart beat, you are light years better then nuggets, and those other train thing.
  12. Password please ¤
  13.      Thanks for the great video! I followed it exactly and it worked, but created a problem that I hope you can help me with. I replaced a 320GB primary HDD with a 1TB primary HDD, all the rest of the system remained the same.  After completing the process I was surprised to see that my new 1TB HDD was only showing as the same size as my old 320GB HDD. This was when in File Manager and I right clicked on "OSDisk (C:)" and clicked on "Properties". 
         However, when I went to "Computer Management" then "Storage" and then "Disk Management" it appears that it has divided up the new 1TB hard drive (Disk 0) into three segments (perhaps called partitions?). They are... 1) "OSDisk (C:)"   .....2) "Recovery"   ......3) "Unallocated".  My question is how do I get the massive 633GB "Unallocated" section assigned to the "OSDisk (C:)" so that I can use it as normal?  Many thanks!!!
  14. Will this process work with a RAID 1?
  15. What's the password after you put administrator in?
  16. Excellent video! Thank You!
  17. How come, i cannot access the network folder?
    BECAUSE I DONT KNOW THE PASSWORD AND USERNAME FOR IT -.-
  18. Password ?
  19. Excellent video. I have created a system image on an external hard drive, but I was unsure on how to properly restore it on my new internal hard drive. Your video is very easy to understand. Thanks.
  20. Greetings!  I tried restoring with the same process (Creating Image from other Hardware to a new MOBO unfortunately when restart it does not boot normally and tried to Repair using Startup Repair Disc but "Cannot repair the windows automatically"
    What other solution to boot into different MOBO?
    Thanks and more power!