windows 10/11 install, backup, and restore

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* clonezilla backed up (and verified) a basic install of windows 10 (with updates) in a bit over 10 mins
  * alternative stable - 20240116-mantic (ubuntu-based) worked, but debian-based seemed to not detect nvme drive
  * https://askubuntu.com/a/802056
  * https://clonezilla.org/fine-print-live-doc.php?path=./clonezilla-live/doc/01_Save_disk_image/06-dev-img.doc#06-dev-img.doc
  * restoration took around 10 minutes (including a pre-verify) - no bios fiddling was necessary

* windows 10 setup issue
  * after installing from media, during the usual windows udpate process, there may be an error that doesn't seem
    possible to go beyond (keep getting "retry").  don't have the error code for it atm, but the size of the
    recover partition may be too small (c. 500 MB).  shrinking the partition before the recover partition
    by about 1GB by using right-click pc -> manage -> ... storage (or something) -- to make more potential space
    for the restore partition, then booting to a linux env and using gparted to move + shrink the restore partition
    "into" the newly created 1GB partition, then rebooting into windows 10 seemed to address the issue.

* lessons learned
  * ms tools might become unavailable / inapplicable at some point (vs say clonezilla which has been around quite a while)
  * surprisingly, windows 10 installation + update broke recently(?).  installation worked, but
    windows update could not succeed (recover partition size was too small -- but that size was
    decided by windows installation media)
  * it is possible to use ms tools (at least atm) to create and restore a system image, but it
    seems quite finicky and inflexible.  
    * https://www.windowscentral.com/how-create-full-backup-your-windows-11-pc
    * backing up can be done from inside windows 11
    * restoration can be done via installation media, but disconnecting and reconnecting the drive that has the recovery  
      image on it and clicking "retry" may be necessary for the recovery image to be recognized.  it may be best to NOT 
      check the box about formatting.
    * it appears to be non-straight-forward (or problematic?) to place recover images for both windows 10 and windows 11 
      on the same disk (even different partitions) so that either can be recovered from