For those who are concerned about the security of your operating system and also the weather, surely they have told you about the creation of system images.
A system or hard drive image amounts to an exact photograph of the operating system or from the hard disk at the precise moment that it is taken and then it can be restored as if it were a traditional copy / paste, with which we save the time of installation of the operating system, drivers, programs, transfer of files, etc ... It is a useful function that we can use on our computer.
To do this on our computer we have several programs, many of which are paid, but the free ones are as good as the paid ones. The only thing we have to know is whether we want to do it with the equipment on or with the equipment off. If we want to do it with windows running and the computer on, then we have to do a "hot" system image for which we will use a program called HD Clone. This program is paid, but because of its low price we can make a hot system image as easy as saving a Word document. We just have to open the program, go to the Clone option and perform the cloning.
If on the contrary, we do not care if the system is on or not, the best option it's called Clonezilla. This SCHEDULE It is free but we have to restart the computer and load it from a livcd or usb to make it work. Once we have loaded Clonezilla from usb (It is the most modern option) we have to select the clone option and indicate which hard drive we want to clone and where the file will be saved. In this case they are large files so it is recommended to have a USB with large internal space or directly buy an external hard drive that we will use for these functions.
My system has broken and I need to repair it, how do I use the created image?
Sometimes we will need to use the image created. To do this, if we have created the image with HD Clone, we will run the program e we will try to restore the created file, but if the system is so useless that Windows does not load, it is best to use Clonezilla and go to the restore option. This last case occurs a lot for which always Clonezilla is recommended although not everyone can turn off the computer or equipment to perform these tasks so HD Clone is becoming a great option. Whichever option you use, I recommend using this backup system as it is quick and easy Do not you think?