I would make your backup as it stands now. It doesn't matter if there are errors because if you then correct those you can then make an incremental or differential image to follow and the changes you made will be reflected in the second incremental/differential image.
An image goes out of date very very quickly and ideally on a frequently used machine you should be taking daily images.
Edited to include Disk Management View
Also, FWIW: File Explorer View w/propertities
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Hello All,
Since my update to 1809 I saw nothing unusual until now.
Reading in 1809 Update Queries suggested to me a look at Macrium might be useful, attached.
I see NTFS Primary partition is now red.
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Asking for advice on restoring a C: Macrium image from 4 weeks ago. Should I do it or might this situation require professional surgery?
Thanks goes out to all who read this and those who reply!
Last edited by jdUnionngarden; 07 Oct 2018 at 15:21.
Post a screen capture of your Disk Management as it looks now.
See this tutorial: Disk Management - How to Post a Screenshot of
Make sure you expand the fields as shown so all data can be seen.
I would imagine it would be OK if you included all partitions in your backup. It would rebuild the disk back to how it was when the image was made.
The system reserved partition in 1809 is now larger than previous versions and I can confirm that on my clean install (post #27 in this thread). I wonder if that is why yours shows in red... the space/location or whatever has changed on the disk with 1809 and a straight restore of that partition from an old backup might not be possible because the actual partition (size and structure) have changed.
jdUnionngarden,
Open administrative command prompt and type: reagentc /info
When this has completed > right click on the top bar or title bar of the administrative command prompt box > left click on edit then select all > right click on the top bar again > left click on edit then copy > paste into the thread
See if you can boot into safe mode.
Boot into Safe Mode on Windows 10 | Windows 10 Tutorials
Your upgrade looks fine. If you have all your documents and pictures then carry on. The reported errors didn't affect everyone (not me either). I'd recommend you don't restore.
As Bree said the red color means nothing - just your recovery partition (which is never used except if you do a recovery) is nearly full. Ignore it - 99% full would be OK as it is only ever read from, not written to, except during Windows updates.
Your partition set-up looks fine for now. Later you can delete the recovery partition and make a slightly bigger one towards the end of the disk or wait for the next upgrade and Windows will most likely do it for you automatically.
I see no reason to restore back 4 weeks but if you want to, go ahead - it will not harm you (except you will have lost everything you did in the last month)!
Windows PowerShell
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PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> reagentc /info
Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and system reset configuration
Information:
Windows RE status: Enabled
Windows RE location: \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition1\Recovery\WindowsRE
Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier: 8a48a0c9-c790-11e8-a978-9dfdb9e831da
Recovery image location:
Recovery image index: 0
Custom image location:
Custom image index: 0
REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful.
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32>
Looks good.
That's confirmation that the recovery is enabled.
Booting into safe mode is the second confirmation.
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