I have no idea if you can change it afterwards, by adding something to the C:\ drive and then removing the boot partition. May be that even -requires- a Boot partition.
I do believe that when installing windows, from the DVD, there is an option to not create a boot partition.Īnd don't know Windows10. The result was now, Boot and C:\ on the SSD, D and E on the HDD, some free space, and I could continue where I had left off.)Īnyway, the boot partition could not simply be left out. I still have the free space, so I can decide on how to best use it when I need it later. ( I eventually wiped the HDD, restored only D and E, from the backup-image to the HDD, and had some free space on the HDD. Then I tried again, this time I restored both the Boot partition and C:\\ partition. (I had only the SSD plugged in while restoring and trying to boot. I first tried restoring only C:\ to the SSD.Īcronis completed successfully, but I could not get it to boot from the SSD. When I looked at my old HDD with Acronis I saw there were actually 4 partitions. (It can also make an mage of all partitions at once, as a backup you can store on an external HDD) With it you can make a system image of only one partition, and then restore that to a new drive. I bought it to transfer the system to the much smaller SSD harddisk. A little while back I bought a 256 GB ssd.
