Backup Information Display -- How to read it?
Using ATI Home 2010. I've attached a screenshot of the Backup Information display. I'm guessing it shows two partitions included in the backup. Looking at the screenshot the one on the left is displayed so short that you can't see it's name or size. I'd guess it is the System Reserved part. The one on the right is displayed big so you can actually read its name and size.
Is there a way to get the display to show both partitions in a readable size? Making the display wider just makes the big one bigger. The small one stays small.
--Larry
PS: Yes, I know the backup should not be on my system disk -- this is just an experimental backup. The real one is on an external disk.
Larry-
What I said might not make much sense. I really needed my notes at home, and I responded from work.
I believe what you are trying to find is a graphical display of the partition structure of your backup, and the screen you show is from "Details" on the shortcut menu for a selected image, part of the Recovery wizard. Hovering the mouse pointer over the scrunched partition is supposed to give more information, but for me it doesn't.
Assuming this is a full disk image, you can get this information from the disk that was imaged by selecting Tools & Utilities -> Add New Disk. In the Disk Selection screen, select the disk under Disk Properties, and you will get a similar graphical display of the partition structure. In this screen, hovering the mouse over the scrunched partition does show the full information.
Gary,
Hovering over the scrunched partition does not give more info for me either. I guess that's the way it works (or, more correctly, doesn't work).
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Assuming this is a full disk image, you can get this information from the disk that was imaged by selecting Tools & Utilities -> Add New Disk.
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It seems to me that the info you are getting from Add New Disk is about the partitions on the disk. I know what those are. I just think you should be able to tell which partitions were included in a particular backup and looking at the Details item on the shortcut menu appears to be a way to do that. So I'm thinking that the Details display is almost fully useful. For a simple situation, like mine, where there are only two partitions (in addition to the Acronis Secure Zone), it's not too difficult to guess what the mystery partition is. There are a couple hints in the Display. It is small compared to the main partition and its name begins with "S", as in System Reserved. In a more complicated situation it wouldn't be so easy to guess.
Thanks for the reply...
--Larry
Larry-
Yes, in our cases, the Details display is totally useless. If you make a disk image, and you already what the partitions are on the disk (real physical order, size, etc.) then the Details display is totally unecessary anyway. You can also get the partition information in an image file non-graphically in the What to recover screen of the Recovery wizard, selecting Start and End to display, moving these to the top of the list, and sorting on ascending Start.