Need help with windows system image understanding

[Xtreme Gamer]

I made a system image while watching videos on youtube. I wanted to know if that was a bad thing to do and should have left it alone when making the image backup. Or if it is ok and won't mess up if I try t restore from it.

[Guest Generallee]

You should be fine

[xQubeZx]

I can't see that it should be a problem. I've made tons of disk images files while doing other stuff. Both windows and linux ones.

[Azgoth 2]

Since a system image essentially just contains a copy of everything on the drive you're backing up, the only things that can go wrong when making a .img file are 1) something interrupts/terminates the backup, which might leave you with an incomplete and possibly unusable .img file, or 2) something happens to corrupt the .img file, which is very unlikely under normal circumstances (if you haven't had problems with corrupted files before and don't, say, wave big magnets around your hard drives).  Watching YouTube videos wouldn't do either of these--it might take up some system resources and make the backup process a little slower, maybe, but that's it.

 

So watching YouTube videos is perfectly fine.  There's no reason it would affect the usability of your system image, so no need to worry.