User Guide

User’s Guide 63
McAfee Utilities
Figure 4-4. Mc Afee Image Wizard
Setting Image Properties
YoucansetImagePropertiestospecifyw het herImagesavesthe FileAllocation
Tables ( F AT), which is a roadmap or index t o whe re all t he p ieces of files on a
disk dr ive a re located. Most likely, you’ll want to keep this checkbox selected.
YoucanalsohaveImagec reateanewimagec opyofyourhardd iskseachtime
you start Windows (recommended).
Restoring drives from an Image file
When all else fails,y ou 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 d eleted 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.
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WARNING: Do not restore an image, except as a last resort. The Image
file does not contain your data files, those are located in your Safe &
Sound bac kup set.
To restore one or more drives from an image file :
1. Start McAfee Image, select the Restore drive(s) from saved image radio
button, and click Next >.
Select whether to create
animagefileorrestore
an image file; then click
Finish
The first time you run
Image, it records the
date and time; thereafter,
Image shows you when
the last Image file was
created
Click Properties
to set whether
Image will save
FAT information
andtoturnon
Image’s auto-save
option, which
updates the image
each time you
start Windows