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how to save windows 8.1 hard drive image
working on a dell laptop that came with windows 8. we did windows update and got it to 8.1 and it's been ok for past year. now it's very slow unresponsive. I don't have a spare hard drive to use so for the moment i'm stuck with using the oem 500gb drive that came with the laptop.
I would like to install windows 7 onto it, but i want to keep the recovery partitions and everything so that i have the option of going back to it.
i have the 500gb oem drive mounted on my other computer and see the following:
- 500mb efi system partition
- 40mb oem partition
- 490mb recovery partition
- OS 452GB primary partition
- 350mb recovery partition
- 11.6GB recovery partition
what's the best way, free way if possible, to save the entire contents of this 500gb oem drive?
thanks.
Last edited by ron7000; 17 Mar 2015 at 13:23.