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I am thinking about using winsxslite to resize my winsxs folder in my win7 computer. I know this is risky but I feel that since I have a full current ATImage (actually daily) I should be safe to do this as I can recover using the image if something doesn't work as promised. Does this make sense to you? I will await your reply before continuing.

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Create a full disk mode Backup. Select the checkbox for the entire disk (not just individual partitions). For this option, switch to disk mode (upper right blue link) until you see disks and not partitions to select. Select the disk. That ensures that you have everything you need, and you won't need to understand how the disk is laid out with possible hidden partitions. A full disk mode Backup captures everything, and is the simplest, safest backup method.

Create the bootable Rescue Media, boot from it to ensure it sees your drives, and test it by restoring a couple of files. If that works, you'll have high confidence that you could restore the whole disk if needed.