Backup and Recovery - Windows XP and Windows Vista

Table of contents
1 Creating recovery discs
2 Backing up your information
When to back up .................................................................................................................................. 3
Backup suggestions ............................................................................................................................. 4
Backing up specific files or folders ....................................................................................................... 5
Backing up the entire hard drive ........................................................................................................... 6
Creating recovery points ...................................................................................................................... 7
Scheduling backups ............................................................................................................................. 8
3 Performing a recovery
Performing a recovery from the recovery discs .................................................................................. 10
Performing a recovery from the hard drive ......................................................................................... 11
Initiating a recovery in Windows ........................................................................................ 12
Initiating a recovery from the hard drive recovery partition ................................................ 13
Index ................................................................................................................................................................... 14
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