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Saturday, January 20, 2024

[10:23:38] Finrod_Faithful hello Suntop

[10:24:25] Finrod_Faithful Which is the best program for backing up Windows 10 on a desktop PC that has Win installed on an SSD, Macrium Reflect or Acronis True Image?

[10:25:25] Finrod_Faithful But I already have Macrium Reflect and Acronis True Image fully installed on my PC

[10:25:57] Finrod_Faithful I actually find backing up my OS on Windows 10 easier than on Linux Mint

[10:26:29] Finrod_Faithful Yeah, because I find Macrium Reflect easy to use

[10:26:50] Finrod_Faithful I can't use Macrium Reflect to backup Linux OS

[10:28:05] Finrod_Faithful Yeah, I use a lot of freeware on Windows 10, so they're probably data mining me everywhere

[10:29:10] Finrod_Faithful Last time I tried downloading CloneZilla, uBlock Origin and uMatrix warned me about privacy and security issues

[10:29:31] Finrod_Faithful Or it might have been Firefox blocking the download

[10:29:48] Finrod_Faithful I can't remember, that was like 5 years ago

[10:30:09] Finrod_Faithful But I've never had any problems with Macrium Reflect

[10:30:47] Finrod_Faithful I have experience using Macrium Reflect, but I also found Acronis True Image easy for backups

[10:33:52] Finrod_Faithful omg, yeah, so you can backup with CloneZilla from a rescue disk or a bootable USB stick?

[10:35:01] Finrod_Faithful I wonder if Macrium Reflect was working better with Windows 7 or Windows XP, as compared to Windows 10

[10:35:18] Finrod_Faithful I've never tested a macrium reflect backup with Win 10

[10:35:49] Finrod_Faithful Is it safe to download software from SourceForge?

[10:36:18] Finrod_Faithful I have high speed internet

[10:37:25] Finrod_Faithful and I can also check their files using VirusTotal

[10:37:45] Finrod_Faithful and use VirusTotal to check their URL

[10:38:33] Finrod_Faithful I'm too damned lazy to use the checksums

[10:40:06] Finrod_Faithful What about Securi Site Check or Jotti's Malware Scan?

[10:42:23] Finrod_Faithful Yeah, I'm getting into some bad habits, and it probably started with installing and using Windows 10 instead of Linux Mint

[10:43:04] Finrod_Faithful Maintaining security and privacy on Windows 10 has become an almost impossible task

[10:43:57] Finrod_Faithful I just installed Linux Mint 20 onto an old laptop at work

[10:47:28] Finrod_Faithful A bigger issue for me is I can't install one of the Windows updates without expanding my Recovery partition

[10:48:28] Finrod_Faithful it's the KB5034441 update for Windows 10 Pro V22H2

[10:49:20] Finrod_Faithful and before fixing my recovery partition, I'm going to backup the Windows 10 OS probably with Macrium Reflect

[10:49:49] Finrod_Faithful But I got like 95 GB of unallocated space available right beside the Recovery partition

[10:52:37] Finrod_Faithful So CloneZilla because of the way it boots allows you to backup the whole OS and all its files, which is different from the way Acronis True Image and Macrium Reflect backup your Windows OS?

[12:35:44] Finrod_Faithful How come my Disk Management says all my partitions are "Basic Data Partitions" and not "Primary Partitions"?

[20:25:01] Finrod_Faithful I have a UEFI install of Windows 10 Pro that uses the GPT disk layout

[20:25:36] Finrod_Faithful and I wish to know if my boot loader uses GRUB

[20:26:25] Finrod_Faithful Before I do anything, I want to learn more about disk partitioning and how protective MBR and GRUB applies to my OS

[20:27:28] Finrod_Faithful It is used to prevent disk tools which are not GPT aware form corruption GPT partitions

[20:28:18] Finrod_Faithful Protective MBR contains a fake partition of type EFI GPT which spans the entire disk up to 2 TB

[20:28:33] Finrod_Faithful https://postimg.cc/DJYvv5yd

[20:28:45] Finrod_Faithful that's what all my disks look like

[20:29:19] Finrod_Faithful See Disk 1, the SSD on which Windows 10 Pro V22H2 is installed

[20:30:38] Finrod_Faithful I just posted a screenshot of my Disk Management onto PostImage

[20:31:12] Finrod_Faithful then I posted the link here, so you can see all my drives and their partitions

[20:31:27] Finrod_Faithful social engineering?

[20:32:26] Finrod_Faithful Anyway, I'm trying to learn more about disk partitioning with GPT before I backup my OS and expand the Recovery Partition

[20:32:58] Finrod_Faithful Most of my experience is with MS DOS layout with Linux and not GPT with Windows

[20:34:00] Finrod_Faithful I'm keeping things simple, and I have plenty of space for expanding the Recovery Partition as you can see from the Disk Management of Disk 1

[20:34:32] Finrod_Faithful Look at Disk 1 at the end of the disk: there's 93 GB of unallocated space: https://postimg.cc/DJYvv5yd

[20:35:32] Finrod_Faithful Keeping things simple means I'm only using my Windows computer for work and mostly word processing, and I'm not dual booting

[20:35:40] Finrod_Faithful I'm running Linux on separate PCs

[20:37:09] Finrod_Faithful Is my boot loader GRUB, assuming I'm using a GPT disk layout with Windows 10 Pro?

[20:38:31] Finrod_Faithful hello computerTech

[20:44:32] Finrod_Faithful is that how to backup Linux?

[20:44:41] Finrod_Faithful I"m backing up Windows 10

[20:44:49] Finrod_Faithful with Macrium Reflect

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