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CorrectUnless you say otherwise specifically, I'm going to assume that Disk 0 in that screen shot contains NO personal files and that it holds ONLY Windows and installed applications. And that you do NOT have any programs installed anywhere except C.
Is that correct?
Everything is on my disk 0 - AKA C:\. No not married to this, just not savvy enough to relocate them. Would love to hear why you ask.Which of that pile of hard drives in the pic contains your "original" data files? If they are on disk 0, partition C, are you married to that idea--as opposed to putting them on another drive?
At this point all my drives other than the C: are spares.You refer to all those other drives as "spares" and yet they obviously contain something. We don't know what as you haven't said.
On the (W)the data is from my Genie Backup Manager 9 Pro (GBM9). I'm not married to GBM9, I have had it a while and just ran it to see how it worked.
On the (X) is my EaseUS Todo maiden run. I'm willing to hear what you have for suggestions. I have a feeling you can optimize me.
I had more partitions shown right after installation but used Minitool Partition Wizard Free to merge them leaving me just the two.The best way to "back up" your Windows installation and all applications installed on C is to back up ALL partitions on Disk 0. Most likely, there's a partition or two on Disk 0 that are not shown in that pic.
I tried Macrium and it was not so smooth going for me. It took FOREVER to download the WinPE stuff. And then as you can guess I was overwhelmed with all the choices. But I winged it and got a verification failure and the access denied thing thats supposed to be a benign error but I did not feel secure. I was not up to purchasing so I could get support to fix something. But from what I read around the Webb its one of the best so its me I guess.I'd just use Macrium. It has a choice named something like "back up all partitions necessary to restore Windows". You poke that choice and let it make a single image file that represented ALL of the partitions on disk 0 in a single file
I backed up to (W) using GBM9 uncompressed - My downloads, docs, pics, Videos, and Outlook coming to 459GB. It was more as shown in the screen shot but I just deleted some duplicates.How many GB does ALL, I say ALL of your data occupy?? Not "backups", just the original data, excluding Windows and installed applications?
I hope I answered this correctly, let me know.
I have so many drives because I did covert video surveillance for three years and had to store all the data untouched for legal purposes. The videos I processed (editing out all the non-relevant) on other drives. Now I'm a simple home user with several drives to make use of and want to have a good backup system.
Please keep asking. FYI I work evenings so my replies may come at odd hours.
Thanks!