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.
Yeah, I just found the SYSTEM CHECKPOINT RESTORE feature. It takes about 4 steps, but there is no way to create a shortcut to invoke the process, like I did in WIN XP.
I realize now that the SYSTEM BACKUP/RESTORE that I was using was not the SYSTEM CHECKPOINT RESTORE feature, and of course I understand that one can’t back up a hard drive to itself. Why couldn’t they have left the SYSTEM CHECKPOINT restore feature where it was, and have added the HARD DRIVE BAKCKUP feature somewhere else ? That is what had me mixed up. Why put the DRIVE BACKUP in place of the CHECKPOINT feature then bury the CHECKPOINT feature several levels down under the COMPUTER PROPERTIES menus ?
As I said, I was used to XP, and just started using WIN 7 yesterday afternoon, so I am having to relearn how to do things. Imagine if every time you bought a new car, you had to learn how to drive completely over. That’s why I have always preferred APPLE operating systems and software in the past.
However, there is getting to be very little difference between the two anymore. Everything it being reworked to fit the smartphone/tablet environment.