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HDD Image backup program that will recreate the partitions if they are changed/deleted


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Hello, everybody!

It was a long time since my last post, I surprised myself that I still remember my password :)
Anyway. 

I have a laptop with preinstalled Win 7, upgraded for free with Win 10.
I want to make a disk image of the system partitions (C:\, the boot partition and the hidden system recovery partition).
There are plenty of such programs, but I want software that is able to recovery the backed up partition even if they do not exists (i.e. to recreate the partition).
May be this is standard feature for such as software, but I do not want to find out this by hard way :)
So, please recommend me such as program, preferably free.

Thanks in advance!

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Just about any disk imaging software should do this.  If you take an image of the entire disk, it should recreate the partitions when restoring the image.  I use Clonezilla because it's free/open source and it does this.

Website: http://clonezilla.org/

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