![]() The result was that Backup would not allow me to create a system recovery image without including my D: drive. ![]() Now, when you ask Windows to back up only your system drive, it. Either a very smart file backup tool or a partition imager is needed to get everything over correctly, and Windows Backup at least knows how to do this. S folder to pop open with a giant SPROING and spray duplicate file confetti all over your new drive. We're long past the point where you can just do a straight file copy of the Windows folder - doing that nowadays will cause the Win. The data partitions I could copy peacemeal myself, but the system partition is harder to clone correctly without messing up symlinks, hardlinks, ACLs, and alternate streams. ![]() I opted to do only a critical partition backup because I was only concerned with cloning the system partitions. I attempted to use it to clone a Windows 7 installation onto a new hard drive, after running into some problems with cloning utilities, and it failed so utterly badly that I'm glad I never tried using it to actually do backups. Okay, I'm now very late to this party, but let me say: don't use Windows Backup (Backup and Restore).
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