Partition Structure: Copy "Recovered" Files

This may not be especially clear. I am staring to grasp W10 partition structures, but my understanding is very basic.

Suddenly I need to quickly advance my basic understanding of them.

Today I received a "Recovery" disk with about 200 gigs of files from my old, crashed, machine.

I want to make an exact copy of the "Recovery" on another dive-- and --- keep that copy safe from any accidents.

Robocopy mirroring will take care of the first part.

But I am not sure how or if I should set up a separate partition on the destination drive.

The the same for securing the "Recovered" file once I put a copy in a dedicated partition.

Thanks for any guidance.

Its not clear are they just files and thatswhat your coping or is it a recovery drive with boot paritions on it that you want to boot from the copy? The problem is likley to be gaining permission on the files as the will all be owned by the old SID

mikeincousa said:

This may not be especially clear. I am staring to grasp W10 partition structures, but my understanding is very basic.

Suddenly I need to quickly advance my basic understanding of them.

Today I received a "Recovery" disk with about 200 gigs of files from my old, crashed, machine.

I want to make an exact copy of the "Recovery" on another dive-- and --- keep that copy safe from any accidents.

Robocopy mirroring will take care of the first part.

But I am not sure how or if I should set up a separate partition on the destination drive.

The the same for securing the "Recovered" file once I put a copy in a dedicated partition.

Thanks for any guidance.

Click on START then enter create and format in the search bar.
Click on "Create and format hard disk partitions".
That will take you into disk management where you will see the current structure of all HDDs.
There you can reduce and increase existing partition sizes, create new partitions, delete partitions and volumes.

There is no boot partition. The files were extracted from the old drive. So far I have been able to access them just as I did on the original drive. The new drive is strictly a storage drive.

Thanks. I have been studying Windows partitions. One definiton echoes into what you state.

One study question:
What is the purpose of a separate hard drive volume?
Partition Definition


A partition is a section of astorage device, such as ahard disk drive orsolid state drive. It is treated by the operating system as a separate logicalvolume, which makes it function similar to a separate physical device.

The above cut through a lot of mud for me.