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Partitions after installation
Windows 10 Pro
My progressively failing defective motherboard caused a lot of problems, as can be imagined, including failed attempts at system re-installation, restoration of backup images, and boot corruption/failure.
After motherboard replacement, I decided to start from scratch on my 2 internal ssd's, with fresh OS installations on their respective 50 GB partitions.
In the past, the fresh install would result in a system partition, recovery partition, and a boot partition.
In this case, identical installation methods on both drives resulted in different outcomes; one drive with 3 OS partitions (system, boot, recovery), and the other drive with one C:\ partition.
Both installations were successful to the extent that everything seems to be in order,, and they boot properly.
Customarily, after a fresh install, I use tools like AOMEI backerupper and/or Macrium to create system image backups, based on the levels of OS customization that are developed over time; directly after a fresh install; fresh install + custom settings; progressive stages of the previous two methods in which also include third party program installations, windows updates, tweaks, etc.
So, here's the thing. Can I use a system backup created from the three partition disk to restore the system partition on the one partition disk (or vice versa) without messing up the boot operation, or anything else for that matter.
In the past I had no problem using a backup to restore on either disk, and I hope it still can be done, because the alternative would be two separate sets of backups and having to develop both OS partitions separately, instead of developing just one and restoring the backup to the other disk.
Sorry for long story, but I needed context for the question.