Installing the Operating system is one of the very tiring jobs. The processing time is also longer. The hard disk may have been lost following a computer crash or any other reason. Normally hard drive installation is done by software cd’s. The ISO copy is an exact duplicate copy of the operating system. All the OS settings are also retained in the Iso image file.
After a computer crash, or on a computer program file fault, you will be forced to do a full system formatting. This is very much time consuming. You have to first install the operating system. Then the most frustrating part is that you have to install each software like adobe reader, adobe photoshop etc. right from the beginning. Each time you have to search for the cd’s, and enter the product keys on installation. If you are software geek, you will have to store a a pile of software cd’s. This whole fuss can be solved by making an iso copy of the hard drive after installing the OS.
Creating an iso copy is an easy job. First, you install the desired the operating system. After that install all the desired programs manually into your computer. Update all the programs manually. Now its time to create the iso copy. You can use the free windows program ImgBurn or buy iso image file creating software. ImgBurn is a good option but in case if your hard drive is corrupted, then ImgBurn won’t be able to boot your system. The iso image file can be stored in the hard drive itself but not in the same destination as the os file.
In case of a system crash, the iso file can be extracted into the c drive. The contents of the c drive will be then over written with the correct c drive data. This is of course time saving and you will loose none of your documents or programs.
