K, new to this forum and am guessing the question to follow up gonna sound noob. Bear wif me pls. I want to backup my windows 7, just the OS itself. I don't need any of the other stuff i have in my pc now. Be it pictures, other downloaded programs and so on. I already managed to download all the drivers from the VAIO website. So intention is to restore fresh, with just windows 7 + all the drivers. How do I go abt doing it? I tried to do it with the built in Windows backup option but the options are either 1. windows chooses all the backup files for you(which i believe will include all the chunk pics,videos and so on) or 2. you choose yourself. In terms of choosing myself, I don't know what to choose to get just soley windows 7 on my backup disk. Your advice pls. Thanks in advance.