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    Vista's Backup

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Techball, May 20, 2008.

  1. Techball

    Techball Notebook Enthusiast

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    hi,

    i recently wanted to make a full system backup with the windows backup software included with ultimate, but it now recognizes my D:/ drive (which is a partition i made so i can store data/programs) as a system drive along with C:/. (by system i mean that it is automatically selected for backup so i cant exclude it)

    This is extremely annoying as my D;/ drive is huge as compared to C:/ (due to games) so i am forced to backup more than i have to.

    Does anyone know what i will have to do? I have made a backup of only C:/ before so i think it could be the result of a recently install software on D:/ but i have no idea what could do it.

    Thanks in advance for any help

    Freeman
     
    Techball, May 20, 2008
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  2. ChevyNovaLN

    ChevyNovaLN Notebook Consultant

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    Its not the BEST solution, but you could go into Computer Management, and use Disk Management to temporarily remove the Drive Letter associated with the disk/partiton. That way it'd just be there with no drive letter, and therefor wouldn't back up.

    You could then re-add the D: drive letter once your backup is complete.

    Thoughts?
     
    ChevyNovaLN, May 20, 2008
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