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Hi everyone, I was wondering if when you image your C: drive, do you need to also select the 100MB System Reserved partition or just the main NTFS Primary partition?
Here is what you can do:
Image the 100MB partition once and stick it into a safe place. It never changes unless you make a double boot. Then you make a second image. And in case you want to get rid of the double boot, you only have to restore the first image of the 100MB partition and then you can delete the double booted OS partition.
The OS partition you should image often - at least once per week. But with those images you need not reimage the 100MB partition.
Note: The 100MB partition contains the bootmgr and should you have to restore to a completely new disk (because your old disk broke), you need that partition. Else your system will not boot.
Now I do things a bit differently. I move (copy) the bootmgr from the 100MB partition to C:\ and then I forget about the 100MB partition all together.
Bootmgr - Move to C:\ with EasyBCD
Last edited by whs; 07 Feb 2014 at 22:37. Reason: typo
I always include the very small system reserved (200MB in my case) in the Macrium image set rather than make it once and store it away.
Even simpler just select:
"Create an image of the partition(s) required to backup and restore windows"
If you have a system reserved, it will be included.
Thank you! :)