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I've used Partition Magic 7 for years but last time I did I had a very nasty meltdown (on an XP laptop).
Someone suggested that there are some fine freeware partitioning tools. Don't remember anything specific.
I've just installed a 180GB Intel 330 SSD on one of my laptops (Lenovo T60), Windows7 Home Premium, done my Lenovo and Windows Updates, installed MSE, done little else. I want to add a partition for data, keep maybe 60GB (?) for the OS + apps partition. This to make it easy to back up the OS + apps. Once I've done that I intend to make an image of the OS + apps partition before restoring my Easy Transfer file from the Windows XP I had on the 60GB HD on the machine prior to installing the SSD over the weekend.
Poking around I see that Windows 7 evidently included a hidden 100MB system partition (didn't get a drive letter) on installation. How will this impact my backup scenario?
Can I get recommendations? Thanks!
Someone suggested that there are some fine freeware partitioning tools. Don't remember anything specific.
I've just installed a 180GB Intel 330 SSD on one of my laptops (Lenovo T60), Windows7 Home Premium, done my Lenovo and Windows Updates, installed MSE, done little else. I want to add a partition for data, keep maybe 60GB (?) for the OS + apps partition. This to make it easy to back up the OS + apps. Once I've done that I intend to make an image of the OS + apps partition before restoring my Easy Transfer file from the Windows XP I had on the 60GB HD on the machine prior to installing the SSD over the weekend.
Poking around I see that Windows 7 evidently included a hidden 100MB system partition (didn't get a drive letter) on installation. How will this impact my backup scenario?
Can I get recommendations? Thanks!
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