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Tech Talk Tuesday is a new feature on The Zen Introvert. March’s theme is backing up your website, home computer, and your individual posts.
Take Care Of Your Computer And It Will Take Care Of YOU!
Computers have become an integral part of how our world works. Most of us use computers on a daily basis without thinking about or remembering what a computerless world even looks like. Every profession that’s tied to computers should follow good hygiene where their data is concerned. From individuals to huge corporations data loss is or should be, an overriding concern.
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Taking a couple hours out of your busy life to protect your data could mean the difference between success or failure. Ensuring that you have the ability to restore your computer (or build a new one with your images and restores) will give you the ultimate in peace of mind that your data and your business is safe.
Today we’re going to talk about the last piece of a perfect strategy that will give you all the tools you need to recover your computer and your files should something unforeseen happen.
Creating Your Repair Disc
Windows has a built-in utility to create a repair disc. Unlike the backup utility, the system repair disc is a manual process. It’s easy though and once accomplished you don’t need to do another one. The best time to create a system repair disc is when you get your computer and are setting it up for the first time. However, a repair disc can be made at any time. Something to keep in mind. This is not a backup of any kind. Creating a repair disc merely ensures that if your computer has a problem and won’t talk to you, you have a way to get its attention and see what might be wrong with it. The repair disc would also allow you to rebuild from the system image we created in last week’s post – Computer Backups
For this activity, you will need a CD/DVD drive. The system repair disc can only be made on this type of media. If your computer is not communicating with you, this is the only medium it will recognize and pay attention to. Thanks to a desire for light, thin machines, most laptops no longer have a CD/DVD drive built into the system. Luckily, they’re not too expensive. For a repair disc, it’s preferable that you get non-rewritable DVDs so no one can record over it. This is called a write once, read many type of disc.
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Easy Step by Step Instructions
This utility is also accessed through the Control Panel. To get to the Control Panel on Windows 7 users, simply click on your start button and choose Control Panel from the right-hand side of the popup. For Windows 10 users, type Control Panel in the Cortana (or Search box), click it, and we’re on our way!
- When you get to the Control Panel, choose the System and Security Control Panel
- Then scroll down to Backup and Restore (Windows 7) and click it. The Repair Disc Option is in the same place as your utility to run your backups and restores.
- You’ll now see the same panel that you used to set up your backups.
- This time, click “Create a system repair disc” on the left-hand side of the page
- A popup will appear asking you to insert a read/write CD or DVD into your CD/DVD drive.
- Click Create disc and the system does the rest.
- After the creation process finishes, make sure you label your disc and put it in a safe place.
- And that’s it! This is the easiest process of all to ensure that you or someone else has all the information to recover your system.
Resources used in this Tech Talk
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