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To: Raptech who wrote (70181)	5/13/2010 3:54:54 AM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110655

Can I save an image to the drive without partitioning. Yes. You cannot save an image to the same partition, but you can make an image to another partition then copy it back. (I think... never tried it) /edit. If you are just copying an image from one external HD to another external HD, yes you can do that once the new HD is formatted. Advise NTFS file system for large files. My post was in reference to backing up external HD files to PC without partitions to an internal HD. Normally you would not want to do that. The reason is you cannot recover the image as you need another partition to do that. Also it would be inefficient now to make an new image of your C: drive as it will have some huge image files on it already. The answer is to compact your current C: partition and made another new one on your hard disk. This can easily been done with a partition manager. It's easy to wipe the whole disk if you make a mistake, but it is easier to be error free with a partition manager then just to use the command line. Care is needed whatever. If I was just learning I would definitely back up the images, including the C: drive, to some high quality DVD's that were also image checked to ensure they are accurate first. see my other recent posts.