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You did OK. You can put images of C and the 100MB partition into your G partition. It's kind of small though. It will hold a maximum of 3 images at your current amount of data in C.

Now let me explain this partition stuff. I know a lot of people get confused with that. There are the following partition types:

Primary - you must have a primary partition for the one that contains the bootmgr - and only for that one. That partition is called the active partition from which your system boots. Unfortunately there is this bad habit (especially by the OEMs) to make other partitionsalso primaries that do not need it.

Logical - this is what I would call a normal partition. You can have up to 120 of those and they are good for everything except for the active partition.

Extended - that is the first logical partition you create. It is the 'mother' of all following logical partitions. In Disk Management it does not tell you which of your logical partitions is the extended partition - and it really does not matter either.

Major - (note that this is my term to make the explanation easier) Primaries and Extended are major partitions

Limitations - in an NTFS disk structure you can only have 4 major partitions. If you have 4 primaries, then that's it. No more partitions are possible unless you want dynamic partitions and those are a mess - let's not even discuss dynamics here.

But you can also have 3 primaries and one extended. Then you can create up to 120 additional logical partitions because the extended serves as the mother of those.

Then why are there always so many primary partitions on the OEM systems - beats me. It is a bad habit and traps the user that is not familiar with the partition structure. But as we are moving from NTFS to GPT, things change. In GPT you do not have those restrictions but that is a tutorial for another day.

I hope that makes it a bit clearer. Questions ??

If you are happy with 3 images at each time, then there is no need to increase the size of the partition. You can delete the older images like any other file - just right click on the image file you want delete.

It is, however, always a good idea to keep one of the very early images of the installation in case you ever want to 'reinstall'. I always make an image right after the system was set-up, updates were run and I have installed the essential programs (e.g. Office). Then I don't have to go thru that again when I want to 'reinstall'.

Of course when my system goes belly up for whatever reason or if I catch a virus, I recover from a recent image - no need to go back in time.

I also recommend to get an external disk and make images to that. I alternate between 3 disks - 1 internal and 2 external. They have a total of 3 TB and serve 3 systems. An SSHD would be a good option because they are fast. I recently lost my whole internal imaging partition out of the blue for no reason I can figure out - see here. That partition vanished for no reason at all. That cannot happen with the external disks because those are disconnected when not in use.

And don't worry about the 'mother partition'. Even if you scrap it, nothing will happen. It is only a way looking at it, but in reality it is a bit more complex.

With an USB attached disk it should not take hours. I have made performance comparisons with a medium large image. Have a look.

SSHD - Performance comparison with HDD and SSD

In addition, when you run Macrium, there is a hide button. Click that and go on with your work. Nothing bad will happen. Macrium takes a shadow at the very beginning and images from that, not from the system you are working on. Of course, if you add or delete things during the imaging time, that will not be reflected in the image.

So with that it is irrelevant how much time it takes to make the image. Restoring an image is another matter. There you have to wait.

You can still learn lots of stuff. You are probably younger than I am and I learn new stuff every day. Have a look what new stuff I made today - yesterday I had no clue how that works. See post #7.

How to make Portable Windows system (any version)

Btw - SSHDs are HDDs with a SSD as cache.