JAAHAS: ...junction points...
MadalinStroe: Is this some new technology, or even an old one I've never heard of? Or is is something lost in translation?
EDIT: Well... considering that this is what google returns, when I search for this term:
"What the heck are Directory Junction Points?",
I guess I'm not the only one clueless. Learning new things every day.
I prefer to separate my savegame backups from the OS backup images, while keeping what little non-gaming stuff I have on the Documents folder on those images. Relocating the saves to another partition accomplishes that goal quite nicely.
Should I feel the need to restore the OS from an image I can now just copy a few small files if they are more recent than the latest image, restore the OS, copy those newer files back and then all I need to do to continue playing is to possibly run a batch-file to restore any missing junction points and merge some registry keys instead of wasting time on copying gigabytes worth of savegames out of the OS partition and back or wasting that time during each occasion I image or restore the OS partition if the saves were kept on it.