Cannot select Recovery Partition to restore

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I am testing the effectiveness of a complete restore of a DELL E6400 machine.
This is a 64 bit Windows 7 machine that was backed up using Acronis 11.5 Workstation. The backup was successful and now I just want to restore back to the same machine. I can select all of the partitions except the Recovery Partition. Even though this is required, I cannot figure out how to select the partition. I keep getting the error "Cannot perform this action..cannot resize the volume". Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

FD

Thu, 05/30/2013 - 14:57
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Hi there,

Was the original backup you took an disk based backup or a volume based backup?

If it was a disk based backup then just take the option to restore the entire disk instead of individual partitions, especially if its going back down to the same machine / hardware.

Fri, 05/31/2013 - 13:50
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It was a volume based backup. I can select the c: drive to the c:--the fat16 to the fat 16 --the mbr to the mbr--but when it comes to the recovery partition (which is required), it will not allow me to select it because it is grayed out.

Thanks,

Bob

Mon, 06/03/2013 - 14:51