User's Manual
Dell™ Backup and Recovery Manager V1.3 Page 12
4 Backing up your system
CAUTION: If you are using a notebook computer for backup or recovery,
it is strongly recommended that you run computer on AC power rather
than battery power to avoid the potential interruption to the backup and
recovery process. Interrupting a backup and recovery process can result
in potential data loss.
NOTE: To use the Dell Backup and Recovery Manager, you must have
Administrator log-in rights or be listed in the Windows
®
Administrators Group.
NOTE: When you perform a system backup, only your primary partition where
your operating system is stored (commonly labeled C:) will be backed up. Other
content that resides on this partition will also be included in the system backup.
However if you have information stored on external drives, other internal drives,
or on other hard disk partitions, you must use the File Backup and Restore
tool
in the Dell Backup and Recovery Manager to back up this information. This
tool is accessed by clicking the File Backup and Restore
button.
NOTE: Store your optical backup media in a cool dark place and handle it with
care using protective sleeves or cases. USB Flash media is not recommended for
long term storage. External hard drives offer the greatest ease of use, best
performance, stability, and value. However they are subject to damage from
heat, physical shock, electromagnetic pulse, and files can be deleted by other
users in a non-secure environment.
CAUTION: To create a backup in Windows 7, your primary hard drive
must be set as the first boot device. Please enter your BIOS System
Setup and change the device boot order if necessary.
1. Click Backup System … on
the Backup System main
screen.
The Choose Storage
Location screen appears.
2. Type a name for the backup.
3. Choose where you want to
save the backup, Optical
Media or External Storage
Device, and then select the
device from the drop-down
menu.
Click Refresh adjacent to the drop-down menu to clear your
selection or to add a new external storage device attached after the drop-
down was populated.