Windows 7 Backup Question

Kaiju · 4 Dec 2011 at 18:48

I have Windows 7 (on a Crucial M4 SSD) backed up on an external SATA drive and was wondering if my Windows drive failed and I had to get a new SSD, would the new SSD accomodate the backup saved on the external SATA drive?

Basically I want to be able to stick the new SSD in, run Windows recovery and use the backup on my external SATA drive.

Or can you only backup onto a drive that already has the original Windows files?

Donkeyfumbler · 5 Dec 2011 at 12:27

What exactly are you backing up? If it is the entire system image then you will have no problem restoring to a replacement SSD.

KIA · 5 Dec 2011 at 12:31

It will work but make sure the SSD is big enough to take the image.

Kaiju · 5 Dec 2011 at 15:15

Cool, thanks guys.