Choosing Drives In System Image
I'd like to know if there is anyway to force how windows 7 chooses the drives that are used to create a system image. For some reason my D: drive is now being selected and there is no OS installed on this drive, just some user folders along with a lot of data. Yet for some reason the system image utility wants to include this entire drive in the backup. How can I prevent this drive from being selected, the option is greyed out when running the backup utility.
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