
Then you only need to include the default OS (C:) partition, EFI System, and Windows Recovery partitions in the system image. It's easier and faster to create the system image if you partition your physical internal drive into an OS partition and one or more Data partitions and move your user folders (Documents, Downloads, Pictures, Appdata\Roaming, etc Google "moving windows user folders") to the Data partition(s). And you CAN use a USB thumb drive to create the SRD.) (You only have to create the repair disk once, then it can be used to restore the current and future system images. Use an external drive to store the image (USB thumb drive doesn't work as Windows considers it an invalid destination, but a USB HDD works fine.) And make sure you also have created a System Repair Disk (SRD) to use for restoring the system image. Preferably just after you've created a system image (via Control Panel -> Backup and Restore (Windows 7) -> Create a system image). Just turn off scheduled updates and run Drivers and Downloads manually.

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