Can I store/employ a system image on the internal hard-drive ?

Can I store/employ a system image on the internal hard-drive under a letter different than C: ?

If so, how do I go about creating this new letter and how much space should I allocate ?

Thanks for reading.

Yes, it's possible.

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Some people consider a different partition on a single hard drive as a different drive than [C], some don't.

If you have only one physical drive and need to resize the [C] OS partition, it gets risky-er imho.
Backups (images) should also be saved to a different device for safety.

Thanks, DavidE and RolandJS.
I do store infrequent system images on the only NTFS formatted ext-drive that I currently have; I switch it back and forth between four machines.
I fully appreciate the fact that, when the internal drive crashes, one had better have a system image stored somewhere else.
However, in 95% of situations, it is not a hard-drive failure that warrants the need of a system image; it is more likely some corruption of software or data that creates a catastrophe.

What I would like is to create a space in each machine where I could have a program automatically save an image at set intervals, thus keeping any program or driver additions up to date.

If I had a major crash, I would have my not-so-frequent image stored on the ext-drive to fall back on; and, if it were some system nightmare that was causing me grief, I would have an up-to-date version ready and waiting.

Thanks for reading.

Thanks to you both !

I barely understand what I am looking at in those disk management snips; on the top one, if I understand what I see, you have three OS, Win 7, Win 8.1, and Win 10.

If I understand, you said a system image could be saved in the data partition; is that also where the libraries reside ?
If so, would you just save the image in "documents" or some such ?

Please enlighten me on this three OS business; let's say you are doing something in Win 7 and then you need to do something else in Win 10, how do you switch from one OS to another ?

I figure you have to have separate license keys for all three.


Back to my original question, what would I need do to create the partition for AOMEI to save the image in ?

Thanks for reading.

I would suggest creating a seperate partition for those images with minitool partition wizard or any other software and use macrium or easeus todo to create and store the backup to that partition.you can hide that partition if you want to protect the data in it

I agree with using MiniTool Partition Wizard.
I would use the bootable CD, I don't like making disk structure changes to the OS drive while Windows is running.
MiniTool Free Bootable Partition Manager | Partition Wizard Bootable CD

To change the OS, i re-boot and select the OS i want to run.
Yes, each OS has it's own license.

I have folders for documents, music, videos, etc. in the Data partition and then include those folders in the appropriate Library.
I don't store user data in the OS [C] partition.

I also have a Backups folder in the Data partition, but you could create a separate partition just for Backups if you want to.
It's up to each user how they want to organize and structure things.

I prefer fewer partitions, so i don't run into problems later where i learn some partition is too small and i have to do some resizing.

I don't suggest my way is the best for anyone else, it works for me and i understand it.