The gregrocker advice will solve your problem.
The reason why Windows imaging requires both C: & F: is because you are booting your OS on C: through F:. In addition to the MBR F: contains all the boot information normally on the 100MB system reserved partition. Windows always images this (now on F: along with the OS (your C: partition).
Thanks gregrocker! That was much easier than I thought! I sincerely appreciate the help. Good karma on the way...
I've been trying to resolve this problem for years, where C: and E: both want to be included in System Image. Tried so many things with diskpart.
I followed the exact steps that gregrocker said but that has not solved my problem. Windows's System Image still wants to include C: and E: when I do a System Image. Before I did the steps that gregrocker descrived, I successfully got E: to not show as System in Disk Management (see first pic).
How can I make E: think it not a System partition? Disk Management does not show it but System Image says it is. See second pic.
EDIT: SOLVED IT!
With PC in above situation
1. Deleted E: partition
2. Ran Windows Backup including System Image. It obviously only did system image of C:
3. Created and formatted E: partition
4. Nowhere is it being reported that E: is a System drive AND Windows Backup does not try to take image of it when doing a System Image.
So it needed one successful backup when only C: was available.
Last edited by brian5; 18 Dec 2011 at 09:54.
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