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Hi, I created a full backup of my Windows 10 C: partition on a USB drive. I also have on my PC a D drive and an E Drive which are not in the Acronis backup.  I need to recover the entire C partition and I'm confused about the  "New Location" dialog that I see when I start Acronis from my bootable CD.

I booted Acronis from CD then navigated to the full backup on USB that I wish to use. No problem.  I noticed that Acronis assigned the USB drive to a different drive letter than it is on my PC, but I don't think that's a problem.

The concern I have is that Acronis is asking me to identify the new location for the disk recovery.  The C: drive is not listed among the new location choices. I want to restor my C partition.

The New Location dialog instead offers the D: drive - I'm sure this is the C: drive because the used and free space is a perfect match with

what I see in Windows.

The question is:  "If I select the D: Drive as the new location, will the partition I backed up from my C Drive be bootable as the C drive

after the Acronis Recover?"   I hope that I'm just running into a drive mapping issue and when I restore the partition and reboot Windows that the

recovery will be written to my C Drive?

Thanks. Michael

 

 

 

 

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Michael:

The recovery version of Acronis True Image uses Linux, which has its own method of assigning drive letters. Don't pay any attention to the drive letter; just go by some other means of identifying the target partition to be restored. You have confirmed this by its size and free space, so that is the partition that Windows will call C:. Many of us recommend that you label your partitions in Windows (example - Windows 10, Data, etc.) so that you can easily identify them in the recovery environment.

When you restore your backup then boot back into Windows, Windows will still call it the C: partition.

Thank you Mark, may I ask another question?  My internal PC hard drive has 3 partitions:  C, D and E.   E is data only.  I use an online backup service for the E partition.  D is scratch and C is my system and programs only.

I only backup the C drive to Acronis. My Acronis full backup is for the C drive only. When I restore it, I assume that the D and E partitions will be uneffected.  Is that correct? 

 

If you restore only the partition, yes, the others will not be impacted, assuming that you do a parition restore and put it on the correct location.

Just be aware that by only backing up C and are not backing up the "system parition" it's hidden, but accessible as an option in Acronis, should you need to restore to another disk (let's say this one physically fails or you just want to move to something else), the system may not boot. 

Check to see what other paritions live on your main disk and if there is a system parition, make sure you're backing that up too!  You only need to restore the C: drive if you want to replace the C: drive, but you'll need at least the system partition and the C: drive to have a fully bootable OS when moving to another disk.

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Michael, when recovering C partition in Acronis bootable environment, double-check that you are choosing the correct partition as the recovery destination. Drive letters under bootable environment may differ from those in Windows. Look at displayed partitions' size to verify that you have marked the correct partition as destination. If you accidentially restore to a wrong partition, everything that was on that partition will be destroyed and replaced with contents of C: partition from the backup.

Regards,

Slava