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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: (OT) Windows 10 won't back up to an internal HD?
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2024 09:06:21 -0000 (UTC)
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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.

-- 
[Self-centered, Woke] "pride is a life of self-destructive fakery, an 
entrapment to a false and self-created matrix of twisted unreality." 
"It was pride that changed angels into devils..."     — St. Augustine