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Can't back up a W10 partition into another partition as a new image in the same physical drive?

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This was with both Linux and WinRE bootable optical discs in an old machine. Am I missing something? I never had this problem with TI 2017 and earlier versions. All TI versions are the free OEM editions from the drives.

Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)

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Ant, I am not aware of any reason for not being able to use another partition on the same physical disk to store a backup of the OS partition(s) on the same drive!  This is something that I have been doing myself with laptops for many years where there is only one internal drive to allow for an easy recovery if travelling (assuming the internal drive doesn't suffer a fatal disk error that kills the whole drive!).

The key check to make is to ensure you are not actually including the destination partition in the source selection!