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Full system image restore & testing
Hi
I have a win 7 x64 system on a partition "C" drive SATA 250GB and this drive is partitioned with another 2 data drives. (1TB total)
I want to buy another SATA drive to use as a backup image drive which will be used internally which will be a large drive of 2TB what I thought I would do was partition this drive to hold the backup images of the "C" drive and another partition area for doing image testing to prove the image works (and still keep the original just in case on the C drive with no changes) The drive should be large enough to keep the full size of the test images on there own partition.
I have done images from both Windows 7 own image program and Acronis True Image Home 2010 Trial to see which works best (would like to use the built in one as acronis I hear is having problems in win 7 and I need to be able to test a program)
I know I can change the boot order in my bios to boot from another hard drive which should allow me to boot from the new hard drive.
My questions are
- If booting from this new drive will windows object having another drive on the system called C or will one drive have its letter changed (I think I read win 7 can boot from another letter)?
- If so will it mess the original drive letter up and course problems later when testing is over? or will this drive go back to being "C" when the new image boot drive is deleted? (as I do not want any changes to this drive through testing and once the image is teste I want things to go back to the way they was before image testing)
Thanks for any help you can give me I just want to find a safe way of testing an image with no risk to the original disk C.
- Or would I have to disable the old C drive to test (remove its power cord
If you need any more information or if I have not explanined my self very well please ask.