Does AlienRespawn work with Windows 8?

Does AlienRespawn work with Windows 8?

Also, when AlienRespawn create the backup partition, is there a way to specify which drive it creates the partition on?

I have Windows 8 on a 64gb SSD, so if AlienRespawn takes up 11gb, that's a huge chunk of the SSD that will go unused. Also, since its only purpose is for restore, it's a waste of the SSD speed. I also have an internal HDD that would make more sense for the backup partition.

 

Yes, AlienRespawn does work with Windows 8 and you can download it from here: http://www.alienrespawn.com/en-us/Index.html

As for installing the recovery partition on a different drive, I think that's a big no-go. The partition has to be on the same drive as the operating system. It shouldnt affect the actual speed of the drive, just use up the space, which in your case is quite a lot of the drive capacity. If you wanted to return some of that space, you can turn of hibernation - this will revert some of your drive space back to you to compensate, if you like. We don't really need hibernation with SSD's as that really is a thing of the past because Today's drives are so fast that we no longer need to use it.

The amount of space you get back may vary, but it should be at least a couple of Gb's - I turned it off on my 512gb Raid and got back 14Gb of space, so you can see that it's a good exercise to do to get back your valuable capacity.

If you want to turn hibernation off, you simply open an elevated command prompt, at the prompt type in the following (without quotes) "powercfg -h off" and hit enter. It may take a few seconds to take the command but check your free space before and after doing this and you will see how much free space you get back for turning it off.

 

I would recommend an external daily backup anyway