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I used more than a couple of times with Marcium and I needed sometimes to have lower space and sometimes more space, so I used the copy partitions. I don't remember or know why it keeps adding more 150mb partitions and I don't know which ones I can remove
I have only 2 real NTFS Partitions C: G: I am sure the first 3 before C: are needed, but I have no idea what about the others.

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If you mean that you did a restore and ended up with more partitions, that means you did the restore incorrectly. When doing a restore you can do it one of 2 ways. You should be booting from the Macrium recovery disk and clicking on the "restore" tab.

1. delete all the partitions on the target drive, then from the Macrium restore screen, drag the partitions from the backup image onto the empty target drive (this is what you will have to do to straighten out your duplicated partitions)

2. In the future when you restore an image, do what I do. Drag each partition from the backup image onto its corresponding existing partition on the destination drive. Only delete those partitions if there is a need to do so. (such as if you need to resize them) Doing it this way, your partition scheme and sizing will be exactly the same.
 

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glasskuter said:
If you mean that you did a restore and ended up with more partitions, that means you did the restore incorrectly. When doing a restore you can do it one of 2 ways. You should be booting from the Macrium recovery disk and clicking on the "restore" tab.

1. delete all the partitions on the target drive, then from the Macrium restore screen, drag the partitions from the backup image onto the empty target drive (this is what you will have to do to straighten out your duplicated partitions)

2. In the future when you restore an image, do what I do. Drag each partition from the backup image onto its corresponding existing partition on the destination drive. Only delete those partitions if there is a need to do so. (such as if you need to resize them) Doing it this way, your partition scheme and sizing will be exactly the same.
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Just a couple of additional notes.

For #1, there may be more partitions than were backed up for which you don't want to delete.

For #2, you can just click on the copy partitions button during restore and not have to drag and drop each one

I think this might be a Windows issue in that it is creating multiple recovery partitions. You should back up the recovery partition as well. Odd that they get consecutively smaller as you go right. I thought it would be the other way round.
 
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