AverageWhiteBloke
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Back again 
Just checking here because I might be on to something. I've discovered that if I just run the exe. file from the creators edition iso that I downloaded that it gave me the option to use the usb stick to help with installation and appeared to be working but I bottled it because I hadn't backed up my recovery partition. So just checking on the Macrium settings, I'll bring things up to speed...
Firstly I reset the laptop to factory defaults, turns out doing this gave me 15gig of space on the C drive, turns out the recovery partition is only 400mb or so in size so to make sure updates didn't start downloading I knocked wifi and went through the usual disk clean up operations and uninstalled any gubbins software that came pre-installed to free up even more space.
Installed Macrium and used the Wizard to create an image that would restore my pc to factory defaults on my hard drive and backed this up to another computer, however, the iso it created is only 275mb is this normal? Currently doing the same again creating an image that can backup or restore windows on to a 8gig usb stick rather than a file and that is 50% done as we speak. Are the backups a lot smaller than the actual partitions they are backing up?
Plan is if I know I can restore to factory which should be even better now with all the crap off I might give the update another try tonight. If not I might just update it and leave it where it is. My understanding with M$ is that if you can't update to creators edition 1705 security updates will still be supported until 2023 same as if you had upgraded from Windows 8 although this is a bit vague.
Just checking here because I might be on to something. I've discovered that if I just run the exe. file from the creators edition iso that I downloaded that it gave me the option to use the usb stick to help with installation and appeared to be working but I bottled it because I hadn't backed up my recovery partition. So just checking on the Macrium settings, I'll bring things up to speed...Firstly I reset the laptop to factory defaults, turns out doing this gave me 15gig of space on the C drive, turns out the recovery partition is only 400mb or so in size so to make sure updates didn't start downloading I knocked wifi and went through the usual disk clean up operations and uninstalled any gubbins software that came pre-installed to free up even more space.
Installed Macrium and used the Wizard to create an image that would restore my pc to factory defaults on my hard drive and backed this up to another computer, however, the iso it created is only 275mb is this normal? Currently doing the same again creating an image that can backup or restore windows on to a 8gig usb stick rather than a file and that is 50% done as we speak. Are the backups a lot smaller than the actual partitions they are backing up?
Plan is if I know I can restore to factory which should be even better now with all the crap off I might give the update another try tonight. If not I might just update it and leave it where it is. My understanding with M$ is that if you can't update to creators edition 1705 security updates will still be supported until 2023 same as if you had upgraded from Windows 8 although this is a bit vague.
