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Still confused about which partitions to backup

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Hi, I have an SSD which I break up into three partitions, one of which holds my Windows 10 operating system.  The other two, call them "D" and "E" are used for storage.    I also have a separate internal hard drive which I use for holding backup images, call that "F".  

The only partition I ever create an image for is the C drive and I ONLY do full backups and never schedule adding to the backup.   

There are other partitions that show up during image creation.  "Recovery Partition", "EFI System Partition"  and MSR(reserved) partition. 

Knowing I will only ever do FULL image backups and restores of the C Drive, what other partitions should I ALWAYS backup?   Also, if in the future, I restore only the C drive, the Recovery Partition, the EFI System Partition, and the MSR partition, does this have any negative effect on the D and E partitions that remain unchanged on the hard drive?

Thank you for your help!

 

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Bob, please consider what you would do should your partitioned SSD drive should fail completely, as any drive has the potential to do?

If you only have a backup of your C: OS partition plus your other hidden / system / recovery partitions, how will you recover your D: and E: partitions?

There should be no issue with recovering your C: partition to deal with such as a Windows update issue, or of recovering the MSR or EFI partitions etc, assuming that the integrity of the SSD drive is still good.