Can't choose one drive only
Hello there,
I recently discovered AOMEI Backupper and I'm amazed, it's a magnificent program!
I had problems to upgrade to windows 10 (error codes) and it saved me hours of time.
It worked fine to make a system backup of c drive. Now I'm at windows 10 and I want to keep a new system backup. But when I choose system backup, AOMEI has both my internal hard drives selected and I can't choose only the c drive.
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As a result, the final image is larger. I don't know why this happened now, but it worked well in windows 8.1.
One thing I noticed also in disk management, is that the d drive (contains only program files folder to save space and files I have), is numbered as Disk0 and c drive which has windows, is numbered as Disk1.
Windows 10 is clean installed, after formatting the c drive.
Do you know how can I fix this?
Thanks in advance,
John
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Hi John,
Please post us a screenshot of Disk Management: right click My Computer--Manage--Disk Management
John,
System Backup will back up both System partition and Boot partition. According to the screen shot, your C drive is marked as Boot, D drive is marked as System. So both C and D drive will be backed up.
But d drive hasnt got any system files though. I only have a program files folder there, to save space from c. Can this be the problem?
Is there a way, to unmark system from D drive?
But it looks like the boot files are on D.
If you power off, disconnect D and reboot (selecting the C drive in bios) would Windows boot up?
Anyhow, here's a similar situation in the link.
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/SwitchingMyWindows7BootDiskFromDToCWithBCDBootRatherThanBCDEdit.aspx
Sidrick you saved me. Thank you very much! What needed, was the command prompt that guy describes in his blog. Now I can backup just the c drive
In the example shown in the previous link, the 'after' image showed his D drive as still being marked 'active' - if that proves a problem, check this link on how to make a non-system disk 'inactive'.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/197157-partition-mark-inactive.html