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Glad I still had my 1803 image. I was thinking about deleting all of them because I made some major changes to file locations on my D drive but I decided to just keep the last 1803 image which had most of the D Drive changes. So restoring it I had to just fix a few broken icon shortcuts and reinstall OneDrive to point to the new location.
Lesson is don't delete your older Macrium restore points when you install a new Redstone build.
My Laptop had 2 recovery partitions for a while and today I decided to go back to 1803 from 1809. I had 5 partitions:
1) Old Recovery 2)UEFI 3)MSR 4) C: 5) Active Recovery.
I used a Macrium image of 1803 and booted with the Macrium rescue USB.
In the restore window I deleted all partitions on the target drive and then dragged 3 of my image partitions to the target in this order. 1)UEFI 2)MSR 3)C: and left the rest 1.2GB unallocated for future use in case 1809 decides it wants a recovery partition when I update in the future. Restore took 16 min and I now have a clean looking Laptop on 1803 and no recovery partitions.
All is well. Love me some Macrium.
Jim![]()
In place upgrade gains you disk space after you cleanup the old installs. I did that with 1803 when I ran the all so great Wise Registry Cleaner and optimizer which messed up performance and was constantly losing disk space.
OK, splitting the hair we can say that yes, if I "accidentally" deleted the data on my primary OneDrive, and at the same time did the same on my NAS which mirrors that OneDrive, I would lose my data.
Even hinting that "it might happen if you accidentally deleted the data" involves that you might think I am an idiot. I am, of course, but not such an idiot. That kind of accidents do not happen, not to me at least. I do not delete anything without first thinking if it is safe to be deleted.
I never delete anything on OneDrive, except occasional "Clean the OD Days". One reason I like the big 1 TB OneDrive storage, and unlimited on my few OD for Business accounts, is that I really do not have to delete anything. There's always enough space. Every now and then, not even monthly but a few times a year I will then "clean" OD, removing old obsolete files which I no longer need. That is on purpose, not by accident.
And, let's not forget: Microsoft OneDrive includes a folder called Recycle Bin. Everything you delete (accidentally or on purpose) will be stored there for 30 days, and can be restored with two mouse clicks. Me losing my data would mean that I would not notice that my files are gone in 30 days.
Sorry, I must take my words back (first sentence in this reply). I REALLY COULD NOT LOSE MY PERSONAL DATA!
Pirated software often involves you not having the key to activate it. Once lost / uninstalled, you might lose the possibility to re-install and activate it.
My point was that because I have valid activation keys to all my software, my worst case scenario would be a relative simple procedure of re-installing and activating Windows and my software, then setting up OneDrive.
Kari