Smart backup enhancement

[pt58]

I was wondering if it would be possible to enhance the Smart backup option to show a warning when a disk layout change has occurred.
If you attempt a differential backup when the disk layout has changed, then HBS necessarily performs a new Full backup rather than the expected differential.
It would be good if this was flagged up and the backup was labelled as a full backup rather than a differential.
The disk layout change seems to occur every 2 or 3 months when Microsoft enlarges the recovery partition as part of Patch Tuesday updates.
This usually entails shrinking the C:\ partition by a corresponding amount.
It has happened again following this months Windows update.
At least the smart backup option allows the backup to proceed following the layout change, whereas previously the backup would just fail.

[Froggie]

You should solve this issue by a 1-time change right before your next scheduled FULL image.

1. SHRINK your OS partition, using Windows DISK MANAGEMENT tool, by 1-gB (2gB optional).
2. Using a FREE Partition Mgmt tool (I use Minitool Partition Wizard), expand your Recovery Partition (usually located to the right of your OS partition) into the space made available by the OS partition shrink.
3. reBOOT your System.

The extra 1-gB added to your Recovery Partition will allow for many, many future updates to your Recovery Partition without experiencing any of the issues described in your post.  If you shrink your OS partition by 2-gB, you'll probably never ever see the issue again (even after an OS upgrade from W10/11-W<n>).

It has worked wonders for me...

[pt58]

You should solve this issue by a 1-time change right before your next scheduled FULL image.

1. SHRINK your OS partition, using Windows DISK MANAGEMENT tool, by 1-gB (2gB optional).
2. Using a FREE Partition Mgmt tool (I use Minitool Partition Wizard), expand your Recovery Partition (usually located to the right of your OS partition) into the space made available by the OS partition shrink.
3. reBOOT your System.

The extra 1-gB added to your Recovery Partition will allow for many, many future updates to your Recovery Partition without experiencing any of the issues described in your post.  If you shrink your OS partition by 2-gB, you'll probably never ever see the issue again (even after an OS upgrade from W10/11-W<n>).

It has worked wonders for me...

Thanks Froggie. I will probably take your advice and adjust the partition sizes to hopefully circumvent the regular misery inflicted by Microsoft.
I still think it would be useful if HBS could warn users that a layout change has occurred and a full backup will occur rather than a requested incremental or differential.