How to make a Restore Disk

Operating systems like Windows become slower in time. Even simple usage of this computer like net surfing, can damage your Windows registries by letting to certain sites to install add-ons, plug-ins and software. If they aren't present you can’t do your job, so that you you must install these. There are so many computer programs today that you should install on a newly installed Windows OS to benefit from it, excluding device drivers, windows updates and patches, a re-installation of Windows with all you need can take a long time, around a couple of hours. No speaking of specific settings and profile information which that you need daily.

That’s why you must have a restore solution, a sort of restoration of your Operating System. This can save you lot of time needed by a fresh install of your Windows Operating System|This will save your time and energy of a new Windows installation}. You would get your data and  all your settings back in a couple of minutes updated at the time when you made the decision to generate a copy of the Windows partition. You don’t need special computer skills for this procedure. Another advantage is that it may be performed on all Windows platforms (95, 96, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, NT).

There are specialized  software for this operation like Norton Ghost or Acronis True Image. They're just both simple, fast, effective and no cost. How they work ? They create a copy of your desired partition, in our case C:\ partition (if we suppose the Windows installation is on C:\). This is an system image with all the files contained on that system partition: windows file system, profile folders, device drivers and installed programs. All the settings that you just have are copied on that ghost image. So, it’s better to full install Windows with all its drivers, service packs if there are any, network configuration, programs that you simply use and specific user settings. In fact, before you do a clone of the Windows OS I advise  you to make use of the computer for a while, until you have the complete installation and configuration you need daily. Afterward just install Norton Ghost or Acronis. Follow the instructions (they are accompanied with good friendly helps and tutorials) for setting up a boot floppy disk or CD/DVD. Boot from them and do the clone of your Windows disk partition to an image file to another partition. Reboot Windows from hard disk and copy that image in a DVD or somewhere safe.

In time when your Windows OS will have problems, it will be slow, having problems on boot or even fail to boot, you just boot with the floppy/CD Norton Ghost created disk and you choose to restore your previously created image of the operating system which contains the Windows operating system itself.