Path: ...!news-out.netnews.com!postmaster.netnews.com!us11.netnews.com!not-for-mail X-Trace: DXC=Z;anmP25odk9C2W:c[HQbiHWonT5<]0TmdjI?Uho:XeklL51CP6LDLl95GMl]75=8aXKGVB;YbeAiWim7Li1M05nbA42oJX=@` X-Complaints-To: support@blocknews.net From: Joel Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: (OT) Windows 10 won't back up to an internal HD? Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2024 05:53:52 -0400 Message-ID: <2aa86jhpiuvckg06t6euk48v0rqip9ctvl@4ax.com> References: User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit OS: Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon, with Wine 9.0 for WinAPI Lines: 54 NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 X-Trace: 1717840431 reader.netnews.com 2363151 127.0.0.1:47421 Bytes: 3496 RonB wrote: >My wife's Windows 10 computer (Inspiron, not my choice) came with a 256GB >SSD and a 1TB hard drive. Stupid me, I assumed that Dell would set up it up >so the program data would save on the TB hard drive and the applications >would run from the SSD. Nope. Everything ran on the SSD and all data was >saved there. The hard drive is just a drone, sitting there and doing >nothing. (I just discovered this.) > >So after about three years, her computer slowed way down. I assumed she >needed more memory and bought a 32GB SIM (so she now has 40GBs of RAM). >Still slow. Then I realized that she had filled up her SSD. It actually had >only 25MBs free tonight. It's a wonder it ran at all. > >So I ordered a 1TB SSD, and tonight cloned it in an external enclosure and >installed it. Worked well (the SSD came with Acronis True Disk). I saw that >Acronis had a backup utility as well, so figured I would back up the new SSD >to the practically unused hard drive... and I found out Microsoft doesn't >like backing up to an internal hard drive. Why does it have this limitation? > >For those of you who use Windows, is there any way to make Windows 10 back >up to an internal hard drive? I've seen something about making the internal >drive a "network drive," which seems kind of convoluted. Is there any >application that overrides this (to me) senseless limitation? And why does >Windows 10 have this limitation — is there a logical reason for it? >(Apparently Windows 7 didn't have this limitation.) > >Kind of ranting. Sorry. But I would like to see my wife's internal hard >drive set up for backups — if possible. Heh, this is some funny shit, he asks a Winblows-problem question, because it's harder for him to figure out than Linux, which he runs on his own device. I don't really have a great answer for him, because I wouldn't use some automated backup imaging BS, I have an external hard drive, I copy files to it, and I can copy them back to my machine, simple. If necessary, I reinstall the OS from the ground up. Just not into this system image scheme. -- Joel W. Crump Amendment XIV Section 1. [...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent. States are liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.