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Š NOTE: McAfee Image now has more user defined options to create
Creating an Image of Your Disks
Creating an image copy of your hard disks as a file (mcimage.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 mcimage.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.
Setting Image Properties
You can set Image Properties to specify whether Image saves the File Allocation
Tables (FAT), which is a roadmap or index to where all the pieces of files on a
disk drive are located. Most likely, you'll want to keep this check box selected.
You can also have Image create a new image copy of your hard disks each time
you start Windows (recommended).
Restoring Drives From an Image File
When all else fails, you can restore the critical information on one or more
drives from an image file. Restoring an image file does NOT recover deleted
files. If you have deleted data files that you need, you can restore a copy of
them from your last backup set (protected volume file or directory) created
with Safe & Sound.
+ WARNING: Do not restore an image, except as a last resort. The Image
custom image files such as setting the properties sheet option to run it
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.
file does not contain your data files, those are located in your Safe &
Sound backup set.
Repair and Recover
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