This weekend I had too much time on hand and decided to do some acid testing of the free Macrium restore capabilities. Straight forward restores of images using the PE environment were flawless. I was curious to learn if the free version had the capability to move a restore partition to a different target disk location as advertised. Reading of the entire help file did not indicate that this was limited to only the paid editions.
My set-up is dual boot with Vista on partition 1 (C, and Win 8.1 on partition 2 (K. For those Vista haters, my wife loves it and I had to keep it for her use.
My conclusion is do not move the Win 8.1 partition if it's normal drive letter is not C:. Moving the partition seems to force reassignment of a different drive letter to Win 8.1 which hoses access to your user files and profiles. Also, Win 8.1 will not complete loading after user sign on to a generally blue screen. It seems that moving the Win 8.1 partition changes the partition ID number which windows uses for drive and user profile assignment. I suspect, but could not confirm that if Win 8.1 partition is normally assigned as the C: drive this may not be an issue.
My set-up is dual boot with Vista on partition 1 (C, and Win 8.1 on partition 2 (K. For those Vista haters, my wife loves it and I had to keep it for her use.
My conclusion is do not move the Win 8.1 partition if it's normal drive letter is not C:. Moving the partition seems to force reassignment of a different drive letter to Win 8.1 which hoses access to your user files and profiles. Also, Win 8.1 will not complete loading after user sign on to a generally blue screen. It seems that moving the Win 8.1 partition changes the partition ID number which windows uses for drive and user profile assignment. I suspect, but could not confirm that if Win 8.1 partition is normally assigned as the C: drive this may not be an issue.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1.1