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Only if you think you will ever want to go back to Windows 7. If not then delete it and create a Macrium backup in that space.
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New #52
As far as I can tell, during the upgrade, Windows 7 was deleted. I do not see a "windows.old" folder on my HD and I certainly do not plan on reverting back to Windows 7. My external backup drive is a WD Passport 1T. I did copy some folders like my pictures, documents and music to the drive before I did the AOMEI backup but there is way more than 500 GB of space left if I delete the old backup.
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New #53
If I could ask a question.
Do run a system where windows and programs are on one drive and data is on a second drive? (or partition).
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New #55
First I don't want you to do anything, just trying to understand how your system is set up.
Some of us split our system storage into two partitions / drives.
C: is used to boot, has Windows on it and all our programs.
D: (or any other drive letter) is used to store data.
When we image our "System" the amount of information to backup is smaller than if we had to Image a single C: drive with all our programs and personal data.
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New #56
OK, I get it now. Doing the W10 upgrade created partitions automatically. Here is a screenshot of the devices and drives as shown in File Explorer. I hope this answers your question. There are new things that I am not sure of what they are but I understand most of it. The network item not shown is my wife's laptop that is on the same network.
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New #57
The OS (C:) partition is showing as 679 gb with only 54.6gb free. You have a lot of stuff on there.
If you make an image ( OS partition image - or a "system image"- or a disk image ) it will be huge. That will happen on your current setup with any imaging program.
Most experienced users will keep much of that data on a different partition ( or on a different disk).
That makes housekeeping simpler.
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New #58
It is more informative if you post a screenshot of the disk management window.
Type diskmgmt.msc in the search box.
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New #59
Yes, I do have a lot of stuff on my C drive. I need to do some thinning out I know. As far as what you see in the picture, that is the way it ended up after the upgrade. I admit that I know little to nothing of disk management and creating partitions. When you say "Most experienced users will keep much of that data on a different partition ( or on a different disk)", are you referring to stored files such as pictures, documents and such? I guess that I should buy another external drive and move a lot of that stuff onto it.
I have not figured out what is on the Local Disk (D:). The rest of the drives are obvious. I'm up to suggestions on how to clean house on my laptop if you care to help with that.
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Here is the Disk Management screen.
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New #60
Wouldn't worry about D:, it is tiny.
Do you know what G: is.
I saw in your screen shot but does not show in disk management.
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