In our daily life and work, our systems may crash due to virus attacks, hard disk corruption, etc. If your system crashes, restoring the system from a system backup is a better solution rather than reinstalling the OS.
System restore can be used in the following scenarios:
Before restoration, there are some things you need to know.
We strongly recommend that users create a WinPE bootable media once they start to use Qiling products. Such bootable media should be created and kept in a safe place in order to boot a failed computer. Otherwise, not having the required bootable media might result in not being able to recover your computer at all.
If you don't have these items, please download Qiling Disk Master and prepare what you need.
1. In the left tab, select Restore and then click Select Task or Select Image File. Here I take "Select Task" as an example.
2. Select a backup image and click the Next button to recover your system to the point in time the backup was taken.
3. Choose to restore the entire image or part and click Next.
4. In the "Operation Summary" page, preview the operation that will be executed. Then, click Proceed. Wait for the process to complete, and then click Finish.
For further details with screenshots, see: How to Do System Restore.
If the PC fails to boot or has crashed, you need to create a WinPE bootable media with Qiling Disk Master and boot your PC into WinPE to run the system restore.
1. Please create a WinPE bootable media using Qiling Disk Master or Qiling PE Builder on another healthy computer.
2. Then, insert the bootable media into the failed computer and boot from it. (You may need to change the boot sequence and boot mode in the PC's BIOS/UEFI Setup Utility).
3. When the PC boots up successfully, Qiling Disk Master (already installed on the bootable device) will run automatically allowing you to start the system recovery just as the process under Windows.
4. Remove the bootable media and restart your PC after the system restore is finished successfully. (You may still need to change the boot sequence and boot mode in the PC's BIOS/UEFI Setup Utility).
Notes:
System Restore can restore our system to its original state in the event of a crash, which can save us the hassle of reinstalling the system and save us time.
FAQs:
Q: You received the message: “Because the system partition exists in a dynamic disk or the image file exists in a dynamic volume. You can go to Tools-> Create Bootable Media and make a Windows PE bootable CD (not Linux Bootable CD) and try again.” when you do restore.
A: If there are programs still running on the destination partition during the restore process, the program will automatically restart the computer and run Disk Master from the Linux or WinPE mode to complete the restore process. This problem arises because an image file in a dynamic partition cannot be recognized by Linux environment. To solve the problem with the following methods:
1) Copy this image file to a basic partition and then restore again.
2) Click Tools-> Create Bootable Media to create a WinPE bootable media. A WinPE Bootable media is able to recognize image files in a dynamic volume. After that, please boot from WinPE bootable media to do restore.
Q: You received the message: “Because the image file exists in a share/NAS network, you need to make a bootable CD...” when you do a restore operation.
A: If the image file is saved in a shared folder or a NAS device, you will receive the above message if there are programs still running in the target partition which cannot close. To solve the problem, you only need to click Tools -> Create Bootable Media to create a bootable media. Then, boot your computer from the bootable media to complete the restore process.
Q: You get the message: “Unable to get the backup information because the image file does not exist, or it can’t be accessed...” when you click the Restore or Advanced button on a backup task of Home screen.
A: The problem might be that the task can’t locate the backup files due to unknown reasons. You need to delete the task and then re-import the backup task by browsing the backup files under Tools-->Import/Export Configuration. After that, the task will be listed on the Home screen again.