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Newbie question about partition restore (and viruses)

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Using TIH 2010 on Win 7 Home 64 bit machine. I have used the "clone disk" backup and restore process successfully to take my system back to before I acquired a virus. I still have a clone copy on an external disk as fallback position. I have recently begun to also use partition backups to a second internal drive. All backups done from within windows (scheduled at wee hours of morning).

my question - Suppose I have a full C: (operating system) partition backup done and then I acquire another virus. If I then restore it in its entirety (recover whole disk and partition) to my C: drive - will it wipe out any new files that are on C: (like my virus) or will it only restore the files on the backup to their prior states and leave new files alone? I want to ensure that the virus is wiped out which does happen with a clone disk backup method.

I have read prior posts on the benefits of doing disk level backups but I have different backup needs for system vs data and limited amount of space available. Hence the partition level backup.

Like I said - newbie question which I probably did not explain well.

Thanks

dbish

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any restore of a backup of partition C will cause the new C to look the same as when the backup was take. All data on old C will be overwritten by the data contained in the backup.

If you were to restore C onto a new disk, it would probably not boot as a backup of C will not contain the other partitions need to create a new boot disk. Hopefully you have other backups of the partitions not included within your backup of C only.

The best type backup to have is a full and complete backup reference as a "disk image" or "disk mode" backup. Click on link 2 below and look at the very first picture.