Thank you for installing O&O DiskImage 12!
We would like to show you in a few short steps how you can quickly get started using O&O DiskImage.
What is O&O DiskImage?
With O&O DiskImage you can quickly and easily create a backup of the entire computer, your hard disks and partitions. Even individual files and directories can be easily backed up. In the event of data loss, with a backup created with O&O DiskImage, your backed-up data will be quickly available again with just a few mouse clicks – even if Windows does not start again.
Getting started with O&O DiskImage
After first starting O&O DiskImage you can enter your license number by clicking on “Enter your registration code” or by purchasing a new license with “Buy Now!”
O&O DiskImage offers a variety of features to help protect against data loss. It is recommended after the first installation to create a boot medium and a full image to immediately be fully protected against data loss. Depending on the size of your hard drives, the image may take a while.
Create Image
We strongly advise you to prevent data loss and protect yourself with just a few clicks:
1. Click Create one-click image.
2. Then check the target path entered for the image. We recommend saving the image on an external drive, e.g. USB hard drive.
3. Click Start to continue with the imaging process. The process might take some time depending on the size of the drive.
Restoration
In order to restore your entire computer or system partition, you need to start O&O DiskImage from a bootable medium under Windows PE. Please proceed as described in chapter Start directly from bootable disk .
For the restoration of an image onto a computer with hardware different than the source computer, please consult the notes in chapter Machine independent restoration (M.I.R.).
- Start O&O DiskImage directly from the bootable medium.
- Select Drive restoration in the start page of O&O DiskImage.
- Click Select image in the form field or navigate to the storage location of the image in the browser button.
- Select the image containing the system partition i.e. all drives of your computer and click Open.
- All drives included in the image will be shown in the drive list.
- Check the drives you want to restore from the image. If you want to restore your entire computer, check all drives.
- Then select the target drive or disk that should be overwritten with data from the image.*
- Click the Start drive restoration symbol to start the restoration process.
- After restoration is successful, you can restart your computer.
Of course, you can also restore the backup on a new computer, for instance if you have replaced your old PC.
We hope you enjoy using O&O DiskImage!
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