I had not reconfigured Acronis in a while, so maybe i was looking at the settings wrong, but i was only trying to get my C drive but somehow, it would not let me select only the system files, and i could only select the whole C drive.

Since i am kind of running late in various project doing this and not even be sure of the result (and risking even more trouble), i decided to bring it in the shop this morning. Crossing fingers they will figure out something for me (and not mess it up like i might have done).