Quick Hack: Backing up Win 7 Home to Networked Drive

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Post by Richard S. » Fri. Jan. 08, 2016 6:42 pm

Converting my parents machine to Win 10 and came across a major issue. There is no way to backup the current install to a networked drive which is little bit absurd...

If you have enough space on the drive there is quick way to solve this. You can't create a system image on the system volume for obvious reasons but you can create it on the same disk if it's different volume. :idea:

Solution is to go into Administrative tools >> Computer management>> Disk management.

Right click and shrink the OS volume. Right click the unallocated space and select simple volume.

Now you can save the image to the new volume and then copy it too the networked drive.

 
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Post by CoalisCoolxWarm » Sat. Jan. 30, 2016 12:47 am

Have you tried subst ?

I've used it to map directories to NAS (instead of bloated "constantly scan for changes and duplicate to networked drive" software), and even on Win 8 notebook to load and run Android image and not run out of space by using an external SDCard.

Not sure if it would work with imaging, but I don't know why not. It's basically just a redirect that has so far been able to bypass many of the "install to local drive only" restrictions.


 
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Post by davidmcbeth3 » Sat. Jan. 30, 2016 2:30 am

Updating from windows 3.11 get a little tricky

 
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Post by CoalisCoolxWarm » Sat. Jan. 30, 2016 3:51 pm

davidmcbeth3 wrote:Updating from windows 3.11 get a little tricky
That's simple. Copy Win 3.11 image to a USB thumb drive, LOL

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