Can I use my Data drive in my laptop for Image Backups??
I have a 596GB hard drive in my laptop alongside the SSD that I use as my system drive. I only use the data drive to store files as it no longer functions as the system drive. Acer was kind enough to add a second bay to the laptop so when I installed the ssd I just put the old hard drive in the second bay. Now I use less than 100 GB's for storage. Can I use this drive as a destination for my image backups? I know that externals are cheap and all but just for the sake of knowing, is it possible to repartition this drive and maybe use 350gb's of it for Acronis backups?

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Yes. But, don't let that be your sole backup repository. If you suffer hard disk failure, you'll lose your system, data and your backups.
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Why would hard disk failure affect that drive when it is totally seperate from my system drive? My system drive is an SSD of about 204 GB. This data drive that is completely separate from the SSD, (it is in a second bay that Acer provided on my laptop) and has no function with my system drive. As I said it is a completely separate drive. I know that if my system crashes my SSD would be useless but how would that affect this separate drive?
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You mentioned partitioning, so I missed that it was a physically separate drive. Yes, an OS drive failure would not affect your data drive. But, personally I would find the permanent loss of my data (if I had no backups) much more serious than loss of OS. Storing all your ATI images on your data drive is asking for trouble. You should have some images stored externally, otherwise loss of your data drive would leave you without your data and without backups.
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You are right of course. I do have it backed up at this time on a 931 GB Verbatim external drive, but I have been getting these controller errors regarding the external drive I believe."An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk1\DR4" DR4 I believe refers to a Disk Removable from what I have researched on Google and the only removable device was the external. I am in the middle of further research to see if maybe a couple of my Windows Services needed some changes, so just as a precaution I needed a Temp home for some backups and I wanted to make sure this drive that I had a ton of space on was ok.
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