![]() ![]() ![]() There’s nothing as reassuring as being able to say, “Oh, well, darn, my machine’s been infected! I’ll just restore to last night’s backup,” and poof, the machine is clean. This is one of the more common uses for image backups. You may have clean scans, but you never really know all the malware is gone - unless you restore to a backup image taken prior to the infection. You can try to disinfect and remove malware, but once you’re infected, you’ve basically lost control of your machine. I have encountered some seriously infected machines. Your image backup software can then restore the image you took to the new hard disk, and everything will work as before the failure. That’s a perfect scenario for an image backup. Just get a replacement hard drive (perhaps a bigger one, to increase the capacity while you’re at it) and swap out the old drive for the new. If your hard disk fails, you don’t need to replace your entire computer. Restoring an old image backup to a new computer, however, is not what those backups are for. They can be useful if you need to restore specific files that have been lost or move files to that new machine. Image backups are invaluable if a hard disk fails or when malware strikes, allowing you to recover from disaster. ![]()
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