Another thing that you need to know when you backup and restore is that you cannot simply restore an existing backup and restore an existing windows registry to the previous one. If you do this, the registry may become corrupted, and you may have to reformat the hard drive of your computer or reinstall the operating system to get back the files that you want to restore.

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