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Confused user, please explain Backup - (System Reserved)

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I am no technical wizard and am fairly new to Acronis True Image Home 2010. I hope I have been creating a disk image of my Hard Drive, which can then be restored in case of emergency, but there is something I am not sure about and the Help menu does not explain.

 If I select to do a Backup and click Disk and Partition Backup > My System NTFS C: Pri, (yellow star) is already selected.

Beneath it for the same disk is the unchecked option > NTFS (system reserved) Pri.Act. (green star) ......

What is the System Reserved? Should this option be selected in order to create a restorable drive image?

The other puzzling thing is that some unscheduled backups I have created, that were highlighted in green on the calendar, have now completely disappeared, with only the latest two backups showing with green blocks on the creation date although they still appear on the list of backups as being completed successfully. Any reason for this?

My operating system is Windows 7 Home Premium (32bit) & using Acronis True Image Home 2010 build 6.053

I save the backups to an external hard disk which is not connected unless I am creating a backup.

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Hello Snookie,

Let me answer your questions:

The 100MB partition 'System Reserved' is a Windows 7 system partition and contains boot files. Disk Manager will not allow you to remove this partition because removing this partition could cause the system to not boot. It is recommended to include this partition into the backup archive.

As for the second question - it's just a minor GUI (Graphical User Interface) issue and it'll be fixed in the next official build of the software.

Please reply to this thread if you need any further assistance.

Thank you.

Thanks for clearing that up Ilya, I shall write a note to myself to remember to select System Reserved each time.

Snookie,

If you have just the one physical drive and it just has the System Reserved and your C paritition, the easiest thing to do is just tick the DISK 1 box instead of the individual partition boxes.

See attached png - where I've highlighted is what you need to tick, then you don't have to worry about forgetting to tick the correct number of partitions.

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That's helpful, thanks Colin.