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How to create partition images for Win7 recover

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Just purchased ATI Home 11 and started reading through forums and must admit I am confused as to where to start. Here is what I would like to accomplish. I would like to be able to recover my OS (Win7 64bit) and be able to reboot my system in the event of either hard-drive corruption or OS corruption. I have a 1TB hard-drive with the following partitions; OEM partition (39MB), Recovery partition (System, Active, Primary)(10.88GB), and OS (C:) partition (Boot, page file, data files)(920.59GB). Presently, all of my data files are backed up to an external hard-drive (290GB) and a Network Drive (290 GB). I also have another unused external hard-drive (290GB) that I hope I can use for disk images. I think I need to make images of the Recovery Partition which contains the System files and the OS (C:) partition which contains the Boot information but also contains all my data files. I think, ideally, there should be a way to add another partition and move all my data files to it, thereby leaving a much small partition just for the Boot files. Any help anyone can give on this would greatly be appreciated.

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Rich,

First things first: you need a full backup of your main disk. CLick disk and partition, swith to disk mode, select your entire 1TB disk and back it up. Hopefully the data will fit on one of your disk.
If it doesn't, you can create a "system" disk backup that excludes all your users data, and then create a file backup that included all you users data. Note that if you have to restore your computer with this, you will first restore your "system" backup and that will erase of you data, then you will have to restore your data.
Once you have your backup(s) done, validate them. Then, create your recovery CD, try it out and verify you can start a restore of the backup(s) you just did. Just don't click proceed at the last possible step.

Now you can start optimizing your disk organization. As you are thinking, you could create a new partition where you put your libraries. Windows 7 lets you change the location of any folder in c:\Users\[Main User]. Then, you can have whatever backup type/frequency you want on each of the system (OEM, system, recovery partition) and of the data partitions. You will *always* need a "system" backup with all your partitions/whole disk and a recovery CD.

Maybe this illustration would help.

http://forum.acronis.com/forum/18125#comment-54935