This partition can be deleted even in disk management once the "System" tag is gone. It has stopped being an EFI System Partition to Windows already,...
Your statement is just based on a guess. Not on a fact. Tell me the Partition {GUID} and I create the Image. Even for a Bare-Metal-Recovery. This is...
3rd party disk imaging lets you select ANY partition from ANY disk you wish to be imaged (unless it's from some format that's not supported for some...
You just have to understand the statement from MS, saying that only for full-disk backups third-party solutions are recommended. It makes sense when...