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Lady:
I thought about this for a while. I believe what went wrong was that I thought a systembackupimage was saving the basic software, similar to what you get after a re-installation. (I don't know the jargon to put it differently. :S)

So in my SBI I just copied the C: and some system reserved part that were default anyway. Because I backup all my files I have on D: and E:.

You, Boggin, on the other hand, save a lot of your other data and current system settings in the SBI as well. That's where it went wrong. I got puzzled and had a bit of a meltdown. Mainly because I had been working on several pc issues for months and it hadn't been easy for me.

I thought about it but it still feels like too much for me to also keep a SBI up-to-date. With all the maintenance that I'm doing already (running various spyware/antivirus scans, cleaning the pc (I use Wise Disk Cleaner), trying to keep my privacy protected, solving problems with Windows that never seem to stop appearing :S, I think it's enough.

Re your tip about smileys: yes, I'm no IT expert but not a total nerd. :)) I assume that came about because you don't know this one:  :S  which I use a lot and means: "oops, that went wrong/feeling awkward or confused". At least, that's the kind of face I pull with these emotions, hahaha.

Among you guys I'm a novice, absolutely, but among my friends I'm the only one who takes care of her pc and laptop this meticulously. Some of them don't even back up their files or have an antivirus program!! Among them I'm the one-eyed queen, hahahaha. So I think I'm all set with just a basic SBI and my regular routine.

Don't you agree? :)

Oh, still no answer on the Lenovo forum. Repeated my question just now and put in the link that Samson gave me about the Lenovo Search Engine to perhaps wake some Lenovo users up.

Still immensely grateful for your help, Boggin. And for your patience going thru ALL these words of mine. :D

Boggin:
I'm not sure if this is one of my off days, but what is a SBI :)

I'm not familiar with :s but that would only produce an emoticon if it was part of the forum's emoticons.

Lady:
To avoid having to type it again and again: an SBI is a systemimagebackup. Not an official abbreviation, surely, but you COULD have guessed it. Off day it is, Boggin!  :cheesy: But you're right, next time I'll introduce it when I'm using an idiosyncratic abbreviation.

Yes, I know the :S is not part of the forum's emoticons, but that's not keeping me from using it.  :cheesy:

So now you know what an SBI is: do you agree with what I wrote?

Then we can close this and move on.

Boggin:
If it had been SIB perhaps, but I just type image if I've already referenced system image.

Are D: and E: external HDDs ?

A system image is a snapshot of what is on the computer at the time, but where you also have a Recovery partition, you can also include that in the image so that it is a full snapshot.

The downside of just relying on that is that when you restore with it, it's a all or nothing restore in that you cannot be selective in what you want to restore and backing up personal stuff separate is the way to go - as I do with my Wordpad Docs onto Flash drives.

It sounds as if you have everything under control, so I guess you could wrap this up.

Lady:
Oh my goodness gracious me, I messed the letters up.................... :S

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