Last year I bought a new 1.5TB hard drive and installed Windows 7 on it. I created two partitions in "equal size". When you partition the hard drive, it is in some other size value (blocks?) that I can't remember, and I never wrote it down. The values were not equal, one of them was +1 higher than the other.
I didn't have an extra hard drive at the time and the backup file was about 19GB, the only place I could save it was on the 2nd partition. I have a 32GB flash drive I could move that image file to.
I liked the setup I had from the backup image I made so I want to do a "clean" install again based off of that image. How do I do that? And will having created two partitions and then backing up cause problems with that backup image I created? Or will it just know what to do with that image file and create the two partitions on it's own?
I can redo everything since I still have my Windows 7 disc and key, but I didn't want to waste the "activation" attempts with it since I had the backup image file.
If anyone can walk me through what I need to do, that would be really helpful.
I didn't have an extra hard drive at the time and the backup file was about 19GB, the only place I could save it was on the 2nd partition. I have a 32GB flash drive I could move that image file to.
I liked the setup I had from the backup image I made so I want to do a "clean" install again based off of that image. How do I do that? And will having created two partitions and then backing up cause problems with that backup image I created? Or will it just know what to do with that image file and create the two partitions on it's own?
I can redo everything since I still have my Windows 7 disc and key, but I didn't want to waste the "activation" attempts with it since I had the backup image file.
If anyone can walk me through what I need to do, that would be really helpful.
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