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I don't know what the correct method would be, I can only speak about how I see this topic, how I would do.
Set up system restore giving the shadow copies exactly the same percentage on both drives. When restored, the application data will also be restored but the fine thing with system restore is it does not touch your personal user data (docs, pics, etc.). They remain intact when using a restore point.
I have totally moved to Windows 10 and one of the most positive things in it (for me) is the seamless OneDrive integration. All my personal data is stored on OneDrive (I have 8 TB OneDrive available), all my libraries and default Save As locations are set to OneDrive, so I do not have to worry about losing any information when doing a system image restore.
If you do not use OneDrive or any other cloud service to store your data, you of course need to backup your locally stored data before restoring a system image because the restore wipes the drives empty before restoring.
See above, System Restore only restores the Windows system and applications (plus application data) but does not touch / change user's own data. All your personal files and folders remain intact. All your Word docs will still be there, all your Outlook's PST files as well, and so on.
Correct choice would be to restore everything (both). See above about the importance to backup your personal data before restoring a system image.
Nice :)
The tutorial you mentioned is meant to be a walkthrough showing the basic steps. Of course, the combination Audit Mode & Windows SIM (answer file) & Sysprep is quite amazingly powerful and you can do some pretty awesome stuff; it's up to you to test the limits.
One tip: When in Audit Mode and you have installed Windows SIM, create a system image. In case your tests take you beyond the possible limits, just restore the image and try again. This is why I use a Hyper-V virtual machine to do my customized Windows install images: I set everything ready and create a checkpoint. If sysprep returns an error, it takes a minute to restore the checkpoint and try again.
Kari