Basic questions on Backup and Restore in Windows 8.1
Windows 8.1, 1 hard drive, partitions are unnamed partition, WinRE partition, Drive C, Drive D recovery partitions. The above came stock on the laptop hard drive. Full backups.
1. Backup
Obviously in the above partition configuration I would backup to an external hard drive.
a. I backup logical WinRE, UnNamed and Drive D partitions separately to the hard drive. I only have done this once and assume these partitions will not change.
Correct/Incorrect?
b. When I backup C partition, Acronis informs me that I should also backup Winre as well.
Is there a reason for this?
2. Restore
I would think it is best to boot and restore with the USB and external hard drive.
a. If I restore all of C, do I need to also restore WinRe?
3. I used to have another laptop that had a logical partition of E that I created on the same hard drive . I would backup C drive to E (full image). I had an issue once on a restore and thought that perhaps trying to use Acronis program installed on Drive C to restore Drive C from Drive E was not a good idea.- as opposed to the external hard drive. Thoughts?
Thank you very much
Peter


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Thank you, fantastic information to clarify my perspective.
Backing up recovery drive and winre and unnamed partition:
Not sure why recovery partition would change that came with the machine and considering you can (and I did) buy those tools on that partition separately (bootable USB)--UNLESS you are stating updates to the machine via HP might change this..
I would worry about restoring the Winre and unnamed partition as that might make the originally bootable hard disk not possibly bootable.
I say this since if you clone a hard drive (I did thank God) you must place (as you know) the new hard drive in the machine and the original hard drive as a USB drive and clone from external to internal..
Any further comments?
Thanks
Peter
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