One a month (or whenever) just burn a CD(s) or DVD of the whole runtime. Thanks for the input - but I'm really looking at some way to avoid using 17 DVDRW's every so often...... Hence the use of an external HD - however I'm after something that can do what Drive image does, as that gets my "C" drive of 23 gig down to a managable 8 gig image. There are some programs out there that do what I want but because they basically work under dos (at boot) - the newer devices such DVD drives and USB HD don't show up. Or am I missing something here?

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11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-11900K @ 3.50GHz   3.50 GHz
64.0 GB (63.9 GB usable)
Geforce RTX 3060 12 GB
Windows 11 Pro