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I have two physical hard drives on my PC: a 100 GB SSD and a 900 GB spinner.  Only about 1/4 of the spinner is in use.  In case I accidentally delete or otherwise disrupt a file, I want backups on the spinner, which has far more unused space than the SSD.  (For archiving, I copy the backups to a portable hard drive after encrypting them.) 

 

The spinner is mostly data.  On it are two large folders: one for photos and one for music (including videos of classical music).  I do three separate backups of the spinner: photos, music, and everything else. 

I have no problem backing up the SSD to the spinner.  I have no problem backing up the photos or the music to the spinner even though this is backing up from the spinner to the spinner. 

 

When I backup the "everything else", however, I get an annoying warning that I should not backup a disc to itself.  This warning did not appear a few months ago, when I had to recreate the setup for backing up "everything else".  Yes, I can still do the backup; but I would like to eliminate this annoyance.  How? 

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David, the best advice I can offer to you is to use a Partition tool such as the free MiniTool Partition Wizard software and to create a separate disk partition on your large HDD drive to use only for backups, keeping all your user data on the original partition of that drive.

I have used this approach in a number of laptops where I either only had a single large drive or else have a small SSD plus a large drive.  This allowed me to carry a backup image with me when travelling without needing an extra backup drive all the time.

The type of backups can also be a factor here.  ATI will complain if creating a Disk backup to the same drive because any recovery would wipe that drive thus losing the backup image!  Files & Folders backups should not be an issue.

I want to emphasize Steve's last paragraph. It sounds like you did File and Folder backups of you music and photos, but maybe tried to create a Disk and Partitions backup for "everything else". And, be sure the "everything else" does not include the place you are putting the backup.