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Although it happens rarely, data stored on a hard drive can become damaged
in several ways. For example, the electric company 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's power cords and the
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 copy is still not as good as recovering your current data, you'll want to
try to recover the latest data first if anything goes wrong. If you use Image to
make a snapshot of the most crucial information on your drives, then if a drive
becomes corrupted, you can use Restore to restore the most current version 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: Set the Image Properties sheet option to run Image automatically
each time you start Windows. Image will examine your system and
update the image only if needed. Doing this ensures you always have the
latest data saved for your disks.

Creating an Image of Your Disks

Creating an image copy of your hard disks as a file ( nbimage.dat ) only takes
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 your hard drives, select the Create a New Image Backup
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.
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