Good to hear. You may want to make images more often than every two months going forward so you'll have less data loss next time you need to re-image. I usually make 2/month and keep the last ten incrementals in storage.
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Good to hear. You may want to make images more often than every two months going forward so you'll have less data loss next time you need to re-image. I usually make 2/month and keep the last ten incrementals in storage.
You're right; I should take an image more frequently. I usually do so before / after installing software, but as I have not installed anything for some time, no real need for another image.
Never too sure about incremental files; I always just do a full image of the os (C:) Have this old fashioned idea that when restoring, it is better if it comes form one file rather than bits scattered around the hdd.
As for losing data, not a problem. No data files that I create are written to C:, they all go to D: E-mail default location is pointing to a folder on D:, and I back-up my address book to a folder on D: Also a couple of important D&S files. Running in the background is a small program that I virtually never hear about, File Hamster. It backs up everything on D: as I go, to another hdd. So I have never actually lost any data; I only have to restore the OS and that takes as long as it takes.
The biggest drag with restoring an image is that I profile my monitor so a restore makes the current profile out of date. No big deal, just redo it while eating dinner!