![]() ![]() ![]() WINRETOOLS has no drive letter because it's used when the system won't boot, to boot into Windows repair. I found some info in a Dell discussion: The EFI partition makes UEFI work. ![]() It has C, a 600MB partition (EFI System partition), 678MB partition (Recovery partition), and a 990MB partition labeled WINRETOOLS (Basic Data Partition). My LAPTOP, which still has the installation of Windows 10 Pro put on by Dell, HAS FOUR partitions for the O/S. to back up and restore Windows" only selects THREE partitions! It selects C and TWO of the unnamed partitions.įor my current Macrium backups, I manually selected all three of the unnamed partitions. ![]() I'll play one of these days.Īs for Macrium, on my desktop, MY display, when I pick the "create an image. So, it sounds like it WILL be safe (within the limits of ME not doing something stupid) to do a test restoration to a spare HDD. So the post I made above is irrelevant for your situation. My apologies, I thought you were talking about installing an OS onto a HDD/SSD, but I now realise that you are talking about creating an image/backup. Maybe it's best to be like the other millions of people using these products and just HOPE if I ever need one, it works. And pulling all the drives out of the desktop is even worse. It also means I'm NOT going to be testing 'cause to pull all the SSDs out of the laptop requires disassembling the whole bottom and hoping they still work when I put them back. That sounds like a serious concern even if it's not something that happens with great frequency. There's a real chance that I tell AOMEI or Todo Backup or whichever product to restore the backup to the drive I specify, and instead some file or folder or anything gets written to one of the OTHER disks? Potentially including the existing system disk, possibly rendering it unbootable? Current system, images, data, all the partitions, AND this new, blank (formatted?) drive I WANT to install the O/S onto. Boot the laptop from the Emergency flash drive and I presume it sees all the hard drives plugged in. Just to make sure I'm understanding your: I stick a HDD into a carrier and plug it into a USB port on the laptop. ![]()
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