User Guide

Using Student Survival Kit
30 Student Survival Kit
McAfee Image
Although it happens rarely, data stored on a hard drivecan become damaged
in severalways. Forexample,the electriccompany may be working down the
street and accidentally send a spike, or power surge, to your PC. Even if you
use a surge protector and connect all the computer’spowercordsandthe
modem’s phone line to a surge protector (instead of connecting them directly
to wall connectors), power surges can still reach your PC and cause lost or
corrupted data.
An important step in preventing disaster is using McAfee Image to make a
“snapshot” of the most critical areas on your hard drives. Since even a recent
backup copyisstill notas goodas recoveringyour current data, you’llwantto
try to recover the latest data first if anything goes wrong. If you use Image to
makeasnapshotofthemostcrucialinformationonyourdrives,thenifa drive
becomes corrupted, youcan use Restoreto restorethe most currentversion of
your data.
McAfee Image saves information that you’ll need if your hard disk ever fails,
including the boot record, partition tables and FAT information. It’s a good
idea to run McAfee Image daily, as well as whenever you’ve reorganized a
disk’s files using a defragmenter. This ensures that you can use Image’s
Restore option to restore the latest states of your files and folders (or
directories). Image stores its information in a file on your hard drive. This file
is stored using a special, patent-pending method that allows the file to be
recovered even if the hardware is severely damaged.
 NOTE: SettheImageProperties sheetoption to run Image automatically
each time you start Windows. Image will examine your system and
updatetheimageonlyifneeded.Doingthis ensuresyoualwayshavethe
latest data saved for your disks.
Creating an Image of Your Disks
Creatinganimage copy ofyourharddisksasafile(nbimage.dat)onlytakes
a moment. You should create a new image file any time you’ve rearranged
files or added many new files to your hard drive.
To create an image of yourhard drives, select the Create aNew ImageBackup
option and click Finish. Image saves the
nbimage.dat file on your system
hard drive, and displays a message letting you know the process is complete.
Click OK.
Be sure to create a Rescue disk using McAfee Utilities’ Rescue Disk. Rescue
Disk places some Image information on your 3.5-inch disk.