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How to Shrink and Create Space for a Windows 10 Partition on Your Drive

March 27, 2026 by Taiba Puckett

The 500GB hard drive I’m using for this article contains 3 partitions. The first is the 100MB System, Reserved partition, the second is the Windows 7 partition and the third and last partition is a Windows 7 recovery partition. To create space on the drive for Windows 10 we must first use Windows 7’s Disk …

How to Create an Image Backup of Windows 7, 8 or 8.1 to an External USB Drive

March 8, 2026 by Iva Belegis

Upgrading to Windows 10; then create a disk and partition image backup, not to be confused with a “System Backup” of your current version of Windows before you do. The built in Windows 10 Roll Back / Restore previous version of Windows don’t always work leaving you with a nonfunctional or incomplete restoration of Windows …