![]() ![]() Installation :: Macrium Image Restore Changes Partition Layout Feb 10, 2016. If you were to check your partitions with a real partition manager, you’ll see it’s an actual partition. ![]() This will not only protect you from any issues during the upgrade process, it also means that if you find that any of your applications will not run, you can access them by booting your backup in viBoot. I tried one again to use Macrium to backup only C:, clean install then restore only C. Secondly, you might find that your current system is MBR/BIOS booting, even though it is capable of UEFI. Once again it did more that I asked it to and removed the 16MB partition created by the clean install. Macrium Reflect is not a partition manager, and Windows’ Disk Management only pretends to be one. Here’s how your partitions would look in Aomei Partition Assistant with that space as an MSR partition vs. Here’s how Macrium Reflect displays the MSR partition vs. unallocated space:Īnd if you were to look at the bytes of the actual partition table, you’d also see the table entry for an actual partition:Īs I said, this is the result of letting Microsoft do your partitioning. ![]() If you don’t like it, use a real partition manager to delete the partition, and next time use a real partition manager to begin with. This partition contains the full Windows Operating System. ![]() OTOH, the space used is inconsequential, and it will be easier to enable Bitlocker if you decide to do so in the future. For Windows XP & Vista this is the Active partition and is the only partition required to boot and start Windows. ![]()
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