{"id":161,"date":"2013-08-21T05:00:49","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T05:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/kb\/?page_id=161"},"modified":"2016-09-16T00:08:15","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T05:08:15","slug":"bcd-backup-and-restore","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/easybcd\/basics\/bcd-backup-and-restore\/","title":{"rendered":"BCD Backup and Restore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Changing bootloader settings isn&#8217;t a task to be taken lightly. As the very first thing your PC does when it turns on is to run the bootloader, it&#8217;s important for it to be properly configured and in top form.<\/p>\n<p>As of EasyBCD 2.2, a backup of your BCD is automatically taken the first time you run EasyBCD, to help protect you in the case of a misconfiguration catastrophe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"info\"><strong>Did you know you can preview your EasyBCD backups?<\/strong><br \/>\nTo preview an EasyBCD backup <em>without<\/em> first restoring it, simply load the EasyBCD backup file <a href=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/easybcd\/basics\/editing-external-bcd\/\">as if it were an external BCD store<\/a> into EasyBCD from the file menu, check to make sure this is the BCD you&#8217;d want, then load the System BCD once more and restore!<\/p>\n<p>EasyBCD can create a backup of your BCD settings at any time from the &#8220;BCD Backup\/Repair&#8221; page:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4755\" style=\"width: 593px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/09\/EasyBCD-BCD-backup-repair-screen.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4755\" class=\"wp-image-4755 size-full colorbox-161\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/09\/EasyBCD-BCD-backup-repair-screen.png?resize=583%2C488&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"EasyBCD BCD backup-repair screen\" width=\"583\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/09\/EasyBCD-BCD-backup-repair-screen.png?w=583&amp;ssl=1 583w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/09\/EasyBCD-BCD-backup-repair-screen.png?resize=300%2C251&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/09\/EasyBCD-BCD-backup-repair-screen.png?resize=60%2C50&amp;ssl=1 60w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/09\/EasyBCD-BCD-backup-repair-screen.png?resize=150%2C126&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-4755\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">EasyBCD BCD backup-repair screen<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Backup<\/strong><br \/>\nSimply either type in the path to the destination save file (ending in .bcd), or else use the browse button on the right-hand side of the text box to browse to where you&#8217;d like to save the file. When you&#8217;re ready, click &#8220;Backup Settings&#8221; to begin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Restore<\/strong><br \/>\nBrowse to the EasyBCD save file created last time (ending in .bcd) and click the &#8220;Restore Backup&#8221; button. Restore will then take place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changing bootloader settings isn&#8217;t a task to be taken lightly. As the very first thing your PC does when it turns on is to run the bootloader, it&#8217;s important for it to be properly configured and in top form. As of EasyBCD 2.2, a backup of your BCD is automatically taken the first time you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":505,"featured_media":0,"parent":136,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-161","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3SlTq-2B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/505"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4819,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161\/revisions\/4819"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}