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Image & clone ?
Hi...
I have been confused regarding size of the backup hdrive.
I have a 750 system drive. I only used 1/3 of that system drive.
I did a Windows backup image on a 1TB which I had 2 partitions of aprox. 480GB each.
I had to do a restore only one and it was the first time that I ever restored an image. Windows successfully restored it for me. Windows would put more than one image on a partition if there was room. And if there wasn't room it would remove the previous outdated image. I just don't think an image takes into consideration the partition size. But what do I know. This thought just makes sense to me. It will go to the same size system drive it came from I suppose.
I have done a lot of clones. I always used the same size hdrive as my XP system drive. System drive 350GB and the clone backup drive 350GB. Tough I am only using 1/3 of the 350GB pf the system drive. Same with image backups. So if I use only a small amount space in the system drive, size of the image backup drive shouldn't really make a difference.
So I'm am getting nervous about my image not able to restore because of the what I've been reading in this forum. Regarding the above of only using 1/2 of the system drive space and putting the image on a 1TB with 2 partitions of 480GB each. There is plenty of room for the image.
Am I safe? I have one backup up as above and I'm about to do another on the other partition. I am hesitant to attempt a test restore for fear of messing up my system drive creating more more than I want.
With appreciation...
Sincerely...strum101...