Overview of making a full system backup
A full system backup involves all data in your computer, including the system files, boot files, program files, and personal data such as documents, business data, video files, pictures, etc. To ensure that you don’t lose any data when your hard drive fails or becomes inaccessible for any reason, you can make a full system backup. So, the questions is; how to make a full system backup?
Here, we will show 2 common ways to make a full system backup.
1. Select the Start button.
2. Choose Control Panel.
3. Click System and Maintenance.
4. Select Backup and Restore.
5. Do one of the following:
Select Set up backup if you’ve never used Windows Backup before, or recently upgraded your version of Windows.
Select Back up now to manually create a new backup.
Select Create new, full backup if you’ve created a backup before, but want to make a new, full backup rather than updating the old one.
Whichever you choose, you will be given detailed operating prompts. Then, follow the steps in the wizard.
Alternatively, you can use a professional cloning software to make a full system backup. MiniTool Solution Ltd., a professional software development company based in Canada, released 2 excellent tools to help users backup PC to make a full system backup.
MiniTool ShadowMaker, an all-in-one system backup and data protection solution, can back up system and disk easily and quickly. Bu using this freeware, you can effectively make a full system backup.
Watch! How to Back up System and Restore System via MiniTool ShadowMaker
Alternatively, you can try using MiniTool Partition Wizard to backup system disk to make a full system backup. This freeware has enjoyed more than 200,000,000 downloads from CNET! It offers copy disk feature to help you easily backup PC without damaging the original data. Besides, it offers wizard-like interface as well as simple operations which lead us easily back up PC without any problems.
Top recommendation: read this post “Copy Disk” to know more information.
Bottom line, reading here, you can choose a suitable solution to making a full system backup.