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Great tutorial, this helped me SO SO SO much!
So right now I have a 64GB SSD as the System Drive, and a 2TB HDD that I use as a Data Disc and created everything from your tutorial on during install. I now want to upgrade to a bigger SSD. I figured I could just do a System Image of the C: drive using windows backup, but it won't let me just do the C: drive because it says that D: is a system drive as well. I have tons of data on the D: drive so I can't do an image including D: and then install it on the new SSD, it will be too big. What is going to be the best way to move just the C: drive to the new SSD?
Yeah, it see's D drive as a system drive because you moved your profile there. There may be other ways to do what you want but moving your profile back to C should allow you to just image C.
Macrium might be able to just image your C drive, I'd wait and see what some of the others have to say as there might be a simple method I'm not aware of.
Gronnie, as Derek told you above your D: drive is now a system drive because you have moved Users (a system folder) to it. Your best should would most probably be to use a third party imaging application.
If you want to use Windows native imaging, you need first to "reverse" relocation i.e. move Users (and ProgramData if you have relocated it, too) back to C:. This can easily be done by running sysprep again using the answer file (script) from the tutorial, this time changing the folder location back to C: (see this post).
Kari
Hi Gronnie. I did use the bootable Macrium Reflect WinPE disk to do what you want to do. I found I had to image BOTH the OS and Data drives, then restore both images with WinPE for it to work. For some reason doing only the OS drive didn't work, it said to insert the OS drive.
WinPE is a bootable version of Macrium.
Free Macrium: Macrium Reflect FREE Edition - Information and download
WinPE, thoughtfully provided by WHS, otherwise you'll need to download WAIK, about 3GB: https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=475a0...A6D4035%211812
And his Macrium tutorial: Imaging with free Macrium
You may find Kari's solution easier.
Thanks for confirming this. It means that when system folders are located on several drives, all of them need to be included on image. When you think of it it's logical. It's called a system image.
So it looks like the reversed sysprepping, moving Users and ProgramData back before imaging is the only way if you only want to image C:. The question is, would the image be any smaller, for it still contains those two folders.
Kari