I’m trying to get my head around imaging & how it relates to planning the partions in a new PC
Was thinking along the lines of partitioning drive so:
1) Windows (XP) + programmes + App data etc: dunno  current system (with roughly 1GB each for paging file, hib file, recycle bin & App data etc) takes up less than 10GB so say 30GB win partition in case I want to install Vista sometime ... |
2) Have to read up about putting paging file on seperate partition - I know it’s been a topic here again lately. |
3) Probably keep my docs & often-used files on next one |
4) then „Storage“ - less often used files |
Will have a second drive for imaging, backup & more „stuff“
But hey, I’m getting distracted here, my main query is about imaging - if I take an „image“ of the Windows-etc-partition shortly after install, if win goes wonky later on I can always restore that image, right?
But if I’ve installed a lot of programmes in between do they get lost if I go back to that image of the fresh install? Seems a fair trade off if you get a clean windows.
If thats the case I’d want to decide in advance whats important, install that stuff, give it a once over test-run so-to-speak & then do my imaging.
If I’m understanding anything incorrectly maybe ye’d let me know!
Or if ye think I should be doing the partitions differently somehow...
Normally I’d go ahead and just try it out, (I've never used imaging software, have copy of Acronis older version) but I’m not going to bother with it on this old machine & as I say, it affects how I install & partition etc on new pc