Resetting or Reimaging your computer is a great option to consider if your computer is very old and running slow. Although these two have some similarities, they are slightly different processes. Reimaging is restoring your computer to a certain saved image whereas reformatting is deleting everything from the selected drive.
We’ve listed how to Reimage and Reformat your windows computer system in this article. Without further ado, let’s get into it.
How To Reimage a Computer?
Reimaging a system means making an image of your current system and restoring that image to a different or the same device. There are two ways to reimage your computer; usingsystem imageandsystem reset.
you may reimage your computer if you have to install the same instances of windows settings on multiple computer systems or if your computer is generally not performing well.
There are some preliminary steps you have to ensure of before reimaging your computer system.
Before you go forward with the reimaging process, back up your files to a different drive. Reimaging your computer deletes all data on that drive including all your personal data on that drive, so copy all your data to a different external drive.
You first need an image to restore from. If you don’t already have one, you may create a custom windows image to restore by using system restore. Here’s how you create a system image:
After you’ve readied an image, you may now restore your computer to that image. You can restore the image by following these steps:
The restoring process can take some time to complete depending on the image size. A green bar tracking the progress will show up after you start the process. After the restoration completes, it will prompt you to restart the device to complete the image restoration process.
you may directlyreset your computerto factory settings through settings. Here’s how you do it:
How is Reimaging different from Reformatting?
In the reimaging process, the system is formatted and then a saved image of the OS is restored. But formatting cleans off the drive and installs a fresh copy of Windows. Formatting takes much more time than reimaging. So, people prefer to reimage if they have to install a copy of Windows on multiple computers.
How to Reformat A Computer?
Reformatting is the process of completely clearing the disk drive to make way for a newer operating system. It will erase all existing data on your hard disk. So, remember toback up important dataon a different drive or a disk partition.
