That reminds me. On WIN XP, you could do a BACKUP of the SYSTEM at any time, and RESTORE from it later if you ran into problems.
On WIN 7, you can do a BACKUP but you can ONLY do it to a DIFFERENT HARD DRIVE or OUT TO THE INTERNET (or a server).
Since I don’t have ANOTHER hard drive in my computer nor do I think you can even add one to it (internally), I can’t do a backup. THANK YOU SO MUCH, MICROSOFT.
So, If I want to do a backup, I will have to buy and add an external drive just for backups.
If I don’t, if some ‘install’ messes up my computer I cannot ‘undo’ things. This SUCKS.
Doing a backup to the same disk is pretty much useless. You can make system restore points in 7 that will protect you in cases such as an update comes out that breaks something or you install software that doesn’t work well, you can essentially roll back to the last restore point.
but if you’re “backing up” your photos or music or whatever to the same hard drive, you’re not really backing them up at all. The reason you want to back up to a different disk is that disks are really pretty fragile machines and it’s all too often they go bad out of nowhere.