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  1. Posts : 11
    Windows 7 Home Premium
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    zbook said:
    When performing windows upgrades windows can install on multiple drives.
    Once Windows is on only one drive you can detach cables or remove drives.
    I wasn't trying to "upgrade" from W7 - rather, adding W10 to the existing system & be able to dual boot - so when I installed W10 that was the only drive connected (LD 1 Samsung SSD) then I reconnected the other two drives.
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    Windows 11 Pro
       #12

    piikea said:
    I see. reagentc / info shows: "Windows RE status: Disabled" on my system. I don't think I disabled it since installation.
    Then the Windows Recover Environment was ever enabled on your system. You will have limited recovery functions. You can see what your recovery options are if you hold down the shift key when clicking on restart from the power button on the start menu.
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  3. Posts : 11
    Windows 7 Home Premium
       #13

    NavyLCDR said:
    Then the Windows Recover Environment was ever enabled on your system. You will have limited recovery functions. You can see what your recovery options are if you hold down the shift key when clicking on restart from the power button on the start menu.
    Yeah that's what I suspected. I'm considering creating a much smaller partition (60 GB or so) for just the W10 OS (with just DATA on the rest) so I can regularly create a (smaller) image backup of it as a recovery method. I'm not sure what the easiest way to go is at this point.
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  4. Posts : 4,594
    Windows 10 Pro
       #14

    @piikea, you don`t have to make your OS partition smaller, Macrium Reflect just makes an image of the OS system, not the entire partition.

    One of my Macrium images is 20 GB on a 238GB partition with a total of 42GB used, Macrium compresses the image.
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  5. Posts : 11
    Windows 7 Home Premium
       #15

    AddRAM said:
    @piikea, you don`t have to make your OS partition smaller, Macrium Reflect just makes an image of the OS system, not the entire partition.

    One of my Macrium images is 20 GB on a 238GB partition with a total of 42GB used, Macrium compresses the image.
    Oh yeah, I was semi-aware of that. I've been using AOMEI to create images but.....knock on wood....I've never had to RESTORE an image. It's a scary thought of restoring an image to a drive and the actual data (videos, mp3's, doc's, etc.) not be overwritten or otherwise effected! But, I guess these backup software do it w/o issues...
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  6. Posts : 15,442
    Windows10
       #16

    piikea said:
    Oh yeah, I was semi-aware of that. I've been using AOMEI to create images but.....knock on wood....I've never had to RESTORE an image. It's a scary thought of restoring an image to a drive and the actual data (videos, mp3's, doc's, etc.) not be overwritten or otherwise effected! But, I guess these backup software do it w/o issues...
    In the end, you have to take a leap of faith that a restore will work.

    If you are using PRO, you can actually mount an image backup in hyper-v as a virtual machine using Macrium Viboot. That is a good way to test backup.

    It is possible to do similar on Home using VMware or virtual box but more complicated as you have to boot in VM from a Macrium Rescue iso, and restore image to a virtual drive etc. In the end, it does same thing but nowhere near as slick as using viboot.

    Of course, another simple way to check if a restore will be fine is to restore to a spare hard disk and check that works ok.
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  7. Posts : 11
    Windows 7 Home Premium
       #17

    cereberus said:
    In the end, you have to take a leap of faith that a restore will work.

    If you are using PRO, you can actually mount an image backup in hyper-v as a virtual machine using Macrium Viboot. That is a good way to test backup.

    It is possible to do similar on Home using VMware or virtual box but more complicated as you have to boot in VM from a Macrium Rescue iso, and restore image to a virtual drive etc. In the end, it does same thing but nowhere near as slick as using viboot.

    Of course, another simple way to check if a restore will be fine is to restore to a spare hard disk and check that works ok.
    That's a bit beyond my level! I need as idiot proof as possible. Currently I image the 60GB W7 OS drive (see disk Management screenshot in post #7) & if anything goes wrong I can restore that image w/ no risk of data loss. Most data is stored on the 1TB HDD.

    If I choose system backup in AOMEI it automatically selects "system reserved" D: (from the 60GB SSD w/ W7 OS) and the entire 500GB Samsung SSD with W10 OS on it. The reason I thought to create a partition (of 60GB or so) on the Samsung 500GB SSD w/ just W10 OS on it is I could then image that and restore if need be w/o effecting or risk of losing data that would be stored on the rest of the drive/other partition (400GB ish).

    Otherwise it's all one drive/partition w/ potentially 20GB of W10 OS + 300-400GB of data so even compressing 320-420GB the image would pretty large. My concern is W10 horror stories of regular update problems possibly requiring reinstallation of W10. This makes sense to me but I'm not well versed in this area!
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