What makes a system image

Hello

My brother-in-law asked me to help him to do an image of its new computer system. It is a Dell Inspiron 660, running Windows 7 Home Premium, MSE, WinPatrol Plus and MBAM Pro, and it has all the important updates installed. We will use the windows built to the creator of the image and put the image on an external hard drive. We looked at the tutorials on the internet about how to do it, but we would like to have some tips on a couple of the item before you start.

In the power Option, there put screen turns off within 10 minutes and the hard drive stops in 15 min we need to define these Never or the the hard disk activity that will occur in the image making process will drive these settings?

Given that MSE, WinPatrol Plus and MBAM Pro all run them in real time, should disconnect us from the internet, out of WP. MBAM and disable real-time protection in MSE while making the picture, and that all when done? If we left them running in real time, could they do something like new updates of definition, which could alter the image?

Any help would be much appreciated.

LKW198

Sorry for the late reply, as I did a few tests.

(1) make a system image backup of my C drive (including the recovery partition) on an external hard drive lasts about 30 minutes. It is with my Pro MBAM, WinPatrol Plus, and any antivirus real time without running other programs running and my fast cable internet connection intact. Obviously the size of the backup, the speed of the CPU and hardware all affect this time. I keep my computer on 24/7 and plan these image backups in the wee hours of the morning when I'm not using the PC.  Now, I have a fairly fast processor and lots of RAM, so I recommend you put your hard drive after 15 minutes when a system image backup is scheduled.

Your monitor off shouldn't affect the backup, as long as the hard drive still works. Almost all my backup images were made with the monitor off.

(2) as far as I know, there is no need to disconnect from the internet, or stop your AV or MBAM Pro update during the imaging process. Never, I took these measures and was able to restore a system image to backup on more than one occasion. At worst, I guess you could lose the current definition updates, which could be easily corrected by performing a manual update of MSE or MBAM Pro.

(3) I have just restored my system to a picture external HD that I just created by using the Windows 7 backup. The guest said she "could take a few minutes to a few hours. It took about 35 minutes for me, and as far as I know, all the files and programs have been restored intact. It didn't stop my AV or MBAM Pro.

I welcome your attempts to back up your system with an image. I think it is the best way to recover from significant malware infection. An image of the system, of course, is frozen both that you make. Anything be added or created subsequently will be lost with a restoration of the image.  I find that a weekly backup image works in practice. All of the important files that I create between two backups, I save to a flash drive.

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