I shrunk the partition to provide more than enough free space. Disk Manager wasn’t that hard at all, especially when ‘Action>All Tasks’ gave me options to ‘Expand Volume’, ‘Shrink Volume’ & ‘Delete Volume”. Win 8.1 is smart enough to find “Create and format hard disk partitions” when I type “disk partition” on the Start screen. “Hello Disk Manager, my new friend” (sung to “The Sound of Silence”, Simon & Garfunkel). Macrium also says that if my PC boots in UEFI mode (which it does my ASUS X55A came with that & Win 8, which has been “updated” to Win 8.1), “then your must format your rescue media using the FAT32 file system.” I had to shrink my existing partition to create free space for a new FAT32 partition. I needed free space in a different partition to create my rescue media. DANG, What the Heck? I learned that my 1TB was all in one partition. Surprise! I got an Error Code 6 “No Free Space Available”. So, I clicked on “Create bootable Rescue media”. I figured I still had more than enough left for everything. Other than software that came on it, I used it for occasional File History backups. I have an external Toshiba Canvio USB flash drive with 1TB total storage. My first step, according to Macrium, was to create bootable rescue media. Preparing to do the backup, a minor problem that seemed major at 1st. Downloading & installing Macrium 7.1, not a problem. This process showed me I’m not the techie I thought I was. Since I’m still on Windows 8.1, I decided to go with Macrium. Among the free products he mentioned to do the backup was Macrium Reflect.
Scary, but very good advice concerning the craziness in January. Among his ProTips, #3 was: “Make a full system image backup before you install the January patches”. When Woody moved us to MS-DEFCON 3, he eventually linked to his latest post in Computerworld.
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