Newbie question about partition restore (and viruses)
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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