Thank you Acronis - a successful recovery
Most posting on the forum are questions or complaints. This one is a report of success.
Yesterday had a problem on my primary PC. The problem seemed to effect only my email client but hours of debugging pointed to a problem in Windows rather than in the email client or its data. I decided recover my C drive from a week old backup.
Since the PC was mostly still useful I decided I should take a non-Acronis backup just in case the recovery failed and left me with boat anchor instead of a PC. I used a well respected (free) competitive product and spent a very frustrating half an hour trying to make sense of the backup process. I finally got my backup and turned to the Acronis recovery.
I booted from a USB built using the MVP Custom ATI WinPE Builder, picked options to recover my drive. It went faster than I expected and I had my system back in less than an hour. (And the email client worked!)
My only question has nothing to do the the recovery process itself - just what should be recovered. When recovering a bootable drive with multiple partitions - such as C drive and "System Reserved" partition - is there any reason to recover both partitions. I recovered both but I suspect that was not needed.

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Patrick, always good to read a positive story but fully understand the need for belt & braces by taking a separate backup with another product.
Tom's advice is correct for any situation where you need to recover an entire dirve with all partitions but I have successfully restored just my Windows OS partition in similar circumstances. The decision depends on what may have gone wrong to prompt the recovery.
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Thanks Tom and Steve. In all cases (including this one) where I needed to do a recovery I've never had an unbootable system - just problematic corruptions in Windows. Maybe next time - and I'm sure there will be a "next time" - I will try restoring just the C drive partition. If that doesn't work I can always redo the restore specifying all partitions. I was in a bit of a hurry or I would have tried this time.
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Patrick, thank you! I am really glad to hear a success story here!
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