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I have Windows 7 on my laptop, formatted as one large partition.
However, I would like to exclude a folder with large temporary files from my Macrium images. Is there an easy way to add a partition to the hard disk? Alternatively, is it possible to exclude specific folders with contents from a Macrium image? -- |\ /| | \/ |@rk \../ \/os |
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Linea Recta wrote:
I have Windows 7 on my laptop, formatted as one large partition. However, I would like to exclude a folder with large temporary files from my Macrium images. Is there an easy way to add a partition to the hard disk? Alternatively, is it possible to exclude specific folders with contents from a Macrium image? In Disk Management, you can click the C: partition and select "shrink". Windows has a built-in shrink and expand function. What it lacks, is it cannot move the origin of a partition right or left. All it can do, is move the right-hand-edge of the partition via shrinking or expanding. If you need "complicated" partition changes, there are free third-party Partition Manager applications for that. Of course, once you've modified the setup, you're going to need to correct your backup definition files. Making changes complicates issues with respect to differential or incremental backups, to restores, and so on. ******* While the paid version of Macrium has File and Folder Masks, AFAIK those capabilities apply only to File & Folder backup mode. Not to imaging. http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx "File & folder masks" Imaging does not waste space on pagefile or hiberfil. Macrium is supposed to store zero length files for those. Architecturally, Macrium can do anything they want during the imaging operation. They could exclude or modify just about anything. There is nothing magic about the Windows VSS function, that requires "precise retention". All that VSS does, is freeze a version of a volume, at the block level, and all of the functions Macrium carries out, are built by Macrium on top of that. If they wanted to have file excludes while doing an image operation, they could do it. But my quick review of the Macrium Knowledgebase, doesn't suggest that function (excludes) exists in an image operation. HTH, Paul |
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Linea Recta wrote:
I have Windows 7 on my laptop, formatted as one large partition. However, I would like to exclude a folder with large temporary files from my Macrium images. Is there an easy way to add a partition to the hard disk? There are lots of partition managers, some of them free, like: Easeus Partition Master Mintool Partition Wizard Paragon Partition Manager GParted There are lots to find using an online search, like: https://www.google.com/search?q=mini...n+manager+free Alternatively, is it possible to exclude specific folders with contents from a Macrium image? https://www.macrium.com/help/v5/How_...nd_Folders.htm That shows selections to filter out (exclude) files or folders. http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx File and folder masks is a feature not available in the free version. You didn't say which you have (freeware or payware). |
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In message , VanguardLH
writes: Linea Recta wrote: I have Windows 7 on my laptop, formatted as one large partition. However, I would like to exclude a folder with large temporary files from my Macrium images. Is there an easy way to add a partition to the hard disk? If you've no unallocated space (i. e. your existing partition[s] occupy all the space available on the disc), then you'll have to shrink (one of) the existing partition(s) to make some space to create a new one in. W7 has its own disk management utility, which _can_ usually shrink, though sometimes only to a point (there are files it can't move, which tend to be around the middle of the partition). [_Sometimes_ running it a second time gets you a bit more movement.] For what you want, this may be more than sufficient. (You use the same utility to create the new partition in the space you've just released - and it can give it a letter and format it, too.) There are lots of partition managers, some of them free, like: Easeus Partition Master Mintool Partition Wizard Paragon Partition Manager GParted EaseUS was the first one I tried, and it did what I wanted, so I didn't try any others. Its look and feel is almost identical to the one built in to Windows. [] That shows selections to filter out (exclude) files or folders. http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx File and folder masks is a feature not available in the free version. You didn't say which you have (freeware or payware). -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf As a child, I was interested in science, but thought that to understand electricity it was best to experiment by sticking a pin into a plug socket. It hurt, so I turned to the arts instead. - Robin Ince, RT 2017/1/14-20 |
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On 2/25/2017 10:44 AM, Linea Recta wrote:
I have Windows 7 on my laptop, formatted as one large partition. However, I would like to exclude a folder with large temporary files from my Macrium images. Is there an easy way to add a partition to the hard disk? Alternatively, is it possible to exclude specific folders with contents from a Macrium image? freewa "Partition Master" |
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"Paul" schreef in bericht
news Linea Recta wrote: I have Windows 7 on my laptop, formatted as one large partition. However, I would like to exclude a folder with large temporary files from my Macrium images. Is there an easy way to add a partition to the hard disk? Alternatively, is it possible to exclude specific folders with contents from a Macrium image? In Disk Management, you can click the C: partition and select "shrink". Windows has a built-in shrink and expand function. What it lacks, is it cannot move the origin of a partition right or left. All it can do, is move the right-hand-edge of the partition via shrinking or expanding. If you need "complicated" partition changes, there are free third-party Partition Manager applications for that. Of course, once you've modified the setup, you're going to need to correct your backup definition files. Making changes complicates issues with respect to differential or incremental backups, to restores, and so on. ******* While the paid version of Macrium has File and Folder Masks, AFAIK those capabilities apply only to File & Folder backup mode. Not to imaging. http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx "File & folder masks" Imaging does not waste space on pagefile or hiberfil. Macrium is supposed to store zero length files for those. Architecturally, Macrium can do anything they want during the imaging operation. They could exclude or modify just about anything. There is nothing magic about the Windows VSS function, that requires "precise retention". All that VSS does, is freeze a version of a volume, at the block level, and all of the functions Macrium carries out, are built by Macrium on top of that. If they wanted to have file excludes while doing an image operation, they could do it. But my quick review of the Macrium Knowledgebase, doesn't suggest that function (excludes) exists in an image operation. HTH, Paul OK, that sounds like what I need. (Touched nothing yet!) This will be a one time operation, so no need to waste space for extensive application. I was confused by the term "volume", while I thought I was going to change "partitions"? Or are they the same thing? And of course, after shrinking C: I suppose I can make a new partition of the remaining space and format it with the same utility? Thanks, -- |\ /| | \/ |@rk \../ \/os |
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"Linea Recta" wrote
| OK, that sounds like what I need. | (Touched nothing yet!) | This will be a one time operation, so no need to waste space for extensive | application. | I was confused by the term "volume", while I thought I was going to change | "partitions"? Or are they the same thing? | And of course, after shrinking C: I suppose I can make a new partition of | the remaining space and format it with the same utility? A volume is a partition. If it were me I'd stay away from Windows disk functions. They're quirky and limited. After backing up a current image, use one of the one's Vanguard listed. (Assuming Macrium can't do partitioning.) I always use BootIt, which can dependably do just about anything, but it's not free. EaseUs is probably fine. I tried GParted some years ago and it didn't work properly. Maybe it's fine now, but I'd be wary of OSS freebies. Funky OSS is OK for graphics and editors, but not for disk management. You can create up to 4 primary partitions and any primary can be an extended partition, which can hold any number of logical partitions. The terms are not really important, except that some OSs can't boot from a logical partition. What it boils down to is that you can have as many data partitions as you like. Once you shrink C drive you can put 1 or more partitions behind that for data, formatted as either FAT32 or NTFS. (FAT32 is immune to file restrictions, which is handy, but it doesn't handle files over 4+ GB. I use FAT32 for most data but then always have one NTFS partition for things like videos and large disk images.) I use about 60 GB for Win7 C drive. 10 GB for XP. But many people would probably say it should be bigger. It depends on how much of your data files you plan to move to data partitions. |
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On 2/26/2017 12:27 PM, Mayayana wrote:
"Linea Recta" wrote | OK, that sounds like what I need. | (Touched nothing yet!) | This will be a one time operation, so no need to waste space for extensive | application. | I was confused by the term "volume", while I thought I was going to change | "partitions"? Or are they the same thing? | And of course, after shrinking C: I suppose I can make a new partition of | the remaining space and format it with the same utility? A volume is a partition. If it were me I'd stay away from Windows disk functions. They're quirky and limited. After backing up a current image, use one of the one's Vanguard listed. (Assuming Macrium can't do partitioning.) I always use BootIt, which can dependably do just about anything, but it's not free. EaseUs is probably fine. I tried GParted some years ago and it didn't work properly. Maybe it's fine now, but I'd be wary of OSS freebies. Funky OSS is OK for graphics and editors, but not for disk management. You can create up to 4 primary partitions and any primary can be an extended partition, which can hold any number of logical partitions. The terms are not really important, except that some OSs can't boot from a logical partition. What it boils down to is that you can have as many data partitions as you like. Once you shrink C drive you can put 1 or more partitions behind that for data, formatted as either FAT32 or NTFS. (FAT32 is immune to file restrictions, which is handy, but it doesn't handle files over 4+ GB. I use FAT32 for most data but then always have one NTFS partition for things like videos and large disk images.) I use about 60 GB for Win7 C drive. 10 GB for XP. But many people would probably say it should be bigger. It depends on how much of your data files you plan to move to data partitions. Minitool Partition Wizard is Great and is free. Rene |
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On Sun, 26 Feb 2017 12:34:23 -0600, Rene Lamontagne
wrote: Minitool Partition Wizard is Great and is free. +1 There are a lot of such tools available but that's my personal favorite. https://www.partitionwizard.com/free...n-manager.html -- Char Jackson |
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"Char Jackson" wrote
| There are a lot of such tools available but that's my personal favorite. | https://www.partitionwizard.com/free...n-manager.html | Why your favorite? What I found was a 50 MB download! Apparently it installs in Windows and the bootable version isn't free. When I unpacked the installer for the free version I got 119 MB and a VC++ v. 9 dependency. There's no reason for anything to need to run in Windows, much less using VC++. That's just a lot of GUI bloat. The BootIt ISO is under 3 MB. It handles all aspects of partitioning, disk imaging and boot management. If Partition Wizard is going to resize C drive it's presumably going to have to reboot outside of Windows, anyway. So why install all that mess? I decided to look at EaseUs and that, also, is about a 50 MB download. There just isn't any reason for a utility like that to need to be installed as a giant, bloated Windows program -- or as a Windows program at all. For anyone who really needs fully functioning disk management I'd suggest trying a trial of BootIt. Disk management is not something to trust to freebies. But if you're sure you're never going to be willing to pay for it then at least find something you can boot from a CD. Then you've got a quick, easy tool that can be used easily on any box, regardless of OS, version, etc. GParted is such a tool. Free and bootable. It's not exactly compact, but nothing has to be installed. Though I don't know anything about how dependable it is. |
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"Linea Recta" schreef in bericht
news I have Windows 7 on my laptop, formatted as one large partition. However, I would like to exclude a folder with large temporary files from my Macrium images. Is there an easy way to add a partition to the hard disk? Alternatively, is it possible to exclude specific folders with contents from a Macrium image? -- |\ /| | \/ |@rk \../ \/os I used disk shrink on C: today. I used suggested size values and it worked fine. I was able to shrink to nearly half total size. Made, named and formatted new partition ntfs. Corrected some drive letters. -- |\ /| | \/ |@rk \../ \/os |
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