Windows 10: Partition portion of External HD for System Files Backup

Discus and support Partition portion of External HD for System Files Backup in Windows 10 Backup and Restore to solve the problem; Current Windows Version 2004 (OS Build 1904.329) I have a secondary 3TB External USB HD. Once formatted leaves me with 2.72 TB of storage. What I... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Backup and Restore' started by 1ThursdayJC, Jul 12, 2020.

  1. Partition portion of External HD for System Files Backup


    Current Windows Version 2004 (OS Build 1904.329)

    I have a secondary 3TB External USB HD. Once formatted leaves me with 2.72 TB of storage. What I would like to do is have two partitions on this physical drive. Logical Drive K which would have about 600gb and that would leave Logical Drive L with a 2.10 TB storage. That part is easy to achieve. My question is can I be backing up the system files on Drive K while I am adding data files to Drive L?

    :)
     
    1ThursdayJC, Jul 12, 2020
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  2. Backup on external HD

    I have several external HD units for backup.

    All units turn on was accessible in computer and ready for backup via SyncToy.

    In Win 10 the external HD sowed op the first two days. Then disappeared one by one.

    All discs had its own drive letter.

    Now only one external HD is accessible.

    Wil that HD disappear too.
     
    Jorn Dalsgaard, Jul 12, 2020
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  3. FRN2016 Win User
    Need driver to restore system image from external HD?

    I just upgraded win7 ultimate 64 bits to win10 pro 64 bits. My HD is partitioned in drive C (system) and drive D (only data). In windows 7 I used the backup option to save the system image on an external HD. At least once a month, I restore the image, run
    all the updates and make a new system image. So I am sure that I get rid of any unwanted stuff that sneaked in without my knowledge. I have this habit since my Windows 2000 once crashed and I needed to install everything from scratch - that is when I got acronis to
    do the imaging.

    After I upgraded to windows 10, same way, I made a system image on my external HD plus the new restore CD. To see if the restore image will work, I booted with the restore cd and external HD connected to the usb. To my surprise, the file WindowsImageBackup
    not shows on the list, like it happened in Windows 7 restore. It shows 3 options: from DVD, from network or from external HD. I chose the external HD (there is where my backup file is) and it asks me to install a driver. When I click on the button, it opens
    a window where lots of files are listed, including, I was able to search the external HD for the desired driver (so if it can access my external HD, why it not finds the image file???). All files that I chose, the restore software rejected, it was not what
    it wanted. I restarted windows and went to "Devices and Printers" to see what drivers are connected with the external HD, copied the drivers to the external HD, restarted with the restore CD, and no, no one of that drivers made the restore software happy.
    I not know what driver it is talking about. It`s frustrating!

    I made another test: copied WindowsImageBackup from external HD to drive D on computer, booted with the restore CD, but it not finds the file there also, he wants me to have it on dvds, on network or, if external hd, it wants a driver installed that I not
    know what driver that is.

    External HD is WD "my passport ultra metal edition 2 TB". Any idea what to do? I want to be able to restore my system images from the external HD, not from tons of DVDs that also may want, who knows, what mysterious drivers?

    Has any one of you tried to restore the system image in windows 10?
     
    FRN2016, Jul 12, 2020
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  4. Partition portion of External HD for System Files Backup

    System Backup to External Hard Drive Fails

    I just purchased an external HD and was trying to create a system image on my Windows 10 machine. The first time I tried it failed and got this error: 0x81000031, suggesting it was failing because another backup (Crashplan) was running, so I paused it.

    I retried and this time got this error: 0x8007045D.

    I should say I was successful in copying a single file to the external HD.

    I also tried a backup with my EASE-US backup utility and it also failed.

    Ideas? Thanks!
     
    Farmer Phil(2), Jul 12, 2020
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