Running The program created a VHD file - an image of your entire C drive.

Only Microsoft would be able to tell us why this option was omitted.

Thankfully it has been added into Windows 7.

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This is easily located by clicking theStartbutton and typing “task”:

The Task Scheduler window then opens.

To schedule a backup, click onCreate Basic Task…

These are all detailed on Microsoft’s TechNet page (link below).

Backup options

If you back up several machines with this technique, you will see one sub-folder for each computer.

Within each sub-folder you will see a subfolder calledBackupwith a date in its name.

That is where your image files are located, along with some XML housekeeping files.

Start the Windows Task Scheduler

Windows Vista Task Scheduler

Wizard step 1

Wizard step 2

Wizard step 3

Wizard step 4

Wizard step 5

Wizard step 6

Active tasks

Backed-up VHD files

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