Good time to Image your OS Drive

I'm sure you all saw the news on Wanna Cry, the virulent Ransomware making the global rounds. Seems it does require some form of click to install itself and most of the time it's thru phishing scams which I never fall for (though I've seen some decent ones, most are obvious) and I've helped Carol become more adept at avoiding them as well.

Still you never know, so I figured it's as good a time as any to use my OS' (win 8.1) built in ability to create an Image of everything installed on my OS Drive (C:/Drive for most of us) and save that on my D:/Drive (4TB backup drive).  My image is almost 200 gigs but I got ~1.4TB left so I'm fine :-)

I recommend doing the same, in case you don't know, what the Image would do is say you got this Ransomware or some other bad virus or corruption, you could just do a clean reinstall of windows then once you've done that...can get everything back to the way it was from the untouched Storage drive where you stored your clean OS image!  Actually, I think you can skip the clean reinstall and directly load from the Image (this may be version dependent).

Here's a link that explains how to do this...quite easy!

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/4241/how-to-create-a-system-image-in-windows-7/