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What's the "used space" on your system drive?
How big is your USB pen drive?
If you just want to export your drivers...
Backup and Restore Device Drivers in Windows 10
It would help me help you, if you posted a screenshot of Disk Management.
Maybe I wasn't clear earlier.
The bootable rescue media is tiny, and will be created by the backup software, on a USB pen drive.
For example... this is how AOMEI Backupper creates the bootable rescue media...
Create Windows PE or Linux Bootable Media Easily
There's two basic parts to backup software...
1. The program itself.
2. The bootable rescue media (so you can access your backups, even if Windows won't boot).
1. You just install the main program on your System drive... it's not that big.
2. You use the Tools section in the main program to create the rescue media on a USB pen drive.
3. You then use the main program to make a backup.
4. You can "save" the backup wherever you want. On another internal drive, on an external drive, on a large USB pen drive.
5. Once you have a backup made and saved... then you can play around with your "other" Windows install.
6. IF... you need to go back to the first Windows install, just restore the backup you made.
7. You can restore that backup to any drive or partition that's big enough to hold it.
8. You can even "overwrite" an existing Windows install, with the backup.
Last edited by Ghot; 07 May 2023 at 05:13.