Click OK to confirm deletion of all the partitions on the destination hard disk drive?
Can anyone help me with this:
When commencing a restore (using TI Home 2010 on Win7 32bit), a warning window opens with the following message:
"Confirmation: The destination hard disk drive that you have chosen contains some partitions that could contain useful data. Hard disk drive image recovery is possible only if the destination hard disk drive is empty. Click OK to confirm deletion of all the partitions on the destination hard disk drive."
Does this actually mean:
"Hard disk drive image recovery is possible only if the destination hard diskdrive is empty. Therefore, all partitions and files in the destination hard disk drive will be deleted and then the backup image will be used to restore to the destination hard disk drive all the partitions and files which were present when the image was made."
Or, does it mean that if I continue with the restore then the partitions which were present when I first made the image will be lost and only the files will be restored to a non-partitioned disk!?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
I'm assuming you are doing a restore of an image and selecting an entire physical hard-drive as the target.
Your first definition is what it means. Beware that if you have partitons A, B, C, D on your drive and your image being restored only contains A, C and D (no B) then everything in partition B will be deleted.
Yes, my new computer has 2 separate drives. The operating system, drivers and programs are on Disk 1 (C:) and my data files and images are stored on Disk 2. Neither disk has any visible partitions in Windows Explorer but I understand that Win7 makes some sort of invisible partition (visible in Acronis TIH 2010). Disk 1 (C:) therefore contains this "invisible" partition.
I made an image of C:, stored it on the separate drive, D:, and now I want to overwrite C: by restoring the image to C:.
As I am new to Win 7 and to ATIH 2010 I don't want to get it wrong and mess up.
I am just unsure as to whether or not the restore action will restore this "Win 7 invisible partition." ?
I am aso unsure as to whether or not to select for the MBR to be restored or should I leave the MBR unselected?
2Spring,
Play it safe. Create a new backup and this time checkmark the disk as what is to be included in your backup. Be sure the validation backup option is selected. A backup of only the C partition does not have the necessary partitions to enable you to restore if your disk become bad. Do the full disk backup just to be safe before you do any restores.
This will include everything in the backup so your restore options are maximized. With this type of backup (disk to include all partitions), you can restore a single partition or restore them all to a new drive--when needed.
In normal restore procedures, you should only need to RESTORE (Recovery) the C partition and the others partitions will remain "unchecked" and remain in "as is" condition.
TrueImage allows you to practice or simulate your procedure. This simulation can be up done up to the last screen where you must either Proceed or Cancel. Note the content of the summary screen. It lists what actions you have chosen.
Remember click Cancel to stop. Do NOT click Proceed unless you really want your choices to be implemented via a restore.
2spring,
The error message is warning you that you made a wrong choice. You do not want to delete all partitions but only to delete the partition being replaced--which is your largest partition. As Seekforever indicated, it appears you selected the to restore the entire disk.
Attempt the restore again with the proper selection and see if you still get the same warning message.
Use Windows DiskManagement and look at the graphical view of your partitions. I do not know your partitions are lettered. In XP, to get to Disk Management, we right click on the MyComputer icon and choose the Manage option and then select the Disk Management option. BE careful to choose the correct partition to restore. Use disk characteristics such as partition size and name to help you make the correct choice.
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I did not partition Disk 1.
All I have done is:
1) Create an image of Disk 1 by using the downloaded ISO created boot disk. This image was stored on Disk 2 which is a completely separate internal HDD unit
2) Create an image onto DVD (which used 2 DVD discs).
3) Load ATIH 2010 and then create annother image of Disk 1 using the fully loaded ATIH 2010. This image was also placed on Disk 2.
My intention was to restore the entire disk (Disk 1) as a check to ensure that I have full restore capability with TIH 2010 (before I spend more time loading and configuring drivers and programs).
I am advised that there is no point restoring the MBR if I am having no trouble booting up, so perhaps I will leave the MBR box unchecked.
The "boxes available to select" at the "What to recover" window in the Recovery Wizard are:
[ ]Disk 1
[ ]NTFS (Unlabeled)(C:)
Pri - Capacity: 466 GB - Used Space: 17.3 GB - Type: NTFS
[ ]MBR and Track 0
- Type: MBR & Track 0
[ ]NTFS (System Reserved)
Pri,Act. - Capacity: 100MB - Used Space: 24.1 MB - Type: NTFS
To check that I have full restore capability, surely I need to select both NTFS(Unlabeled)(C:) and NTFS(System Reserved) ?
Or, do I just select to restore only "NTFS(Unlabeled)(C:)" on the grounds that either:
a) I simply do not need to check that the "MBR and Track 0" and "NTFS (System Reserved)" will restore.
or:
b) It is risky restoring these two items and so it is not adviseable to restore them unless you are already having problems ??
?
2Spring,
There is a slight misunderstanding with the term ' partition '. Technically speaking you have partitioned your drive, it's just that you only see one which has a drive label of C:\ . To make things more complicated from your description above you actually have two partitions - the reserved system partition and the one you know about C:\ . Hope that clears that up for you.
Word of advice, give your C:\ partition a meaningful name. When you use the restore CD or start recovery from within Windows the Linux system will be the one booting your PC. Linux unfortunately doesn't assign partition letters in the same way as Windows, this means there can be confusion when looking at drives/partitions to restore to. Partition labels/names on the other hand never change.
If I explain how the different restore options work, it might help you to decide how you want to go about this. Before I go there, in your case, there is no reason for you not to just tick the restore disk 1 option.
Restoring a complete disk:
This will cause all the partitions on the selected disk to be restored that have been imaged, including the MBR.
When would you use this option?
When you only have one single partition to a drive.
When you have either a Vista or W7 system that has the 100MB system partition such as yours has. (Not all Vista or W7 installs will have this system partition).
When there is an OEM or other recovery partition as well as the above.
If your PC is a brand name, that you either know or suspect has an OEM bootmanager or booting sector.
Restoring a single or selected partition(s)
This is meant for drives that have more than one user accessible or user implemented partitions. As an example I have a drive that is partitioned in to six partitions - see attached snipshot.
When would you use this option
If you have a setup like mine and you only needed to restore one or more partitions. Care needs to be exercised for example when restoring individual partitions on a system drive like my drive one, but drive two you can select partitions to your hearts content! :)
Restoring the MBR
The MBR is the Master Boot Record. This stores the partition layout (how many partitions there are, the size and placement on the drive) and a link to the boot record which tells the BIOS were to look for the operating systems boot program such as NTLDR for XP and the BCD for Vista and W7 (Same for Server 2008 etc).
Why restore just the MBR?
If you haven't changed anything concerning your disk layout, but you have a problem booting or a partition has 'gone awol', you could try just restoring the MBR - there actually other tools for this in Vista and W7 and these should probably be used to redress booting problems.
Does that make anything clearer or make it all more complicated?
Colin B and Seekforever and Grover H
Thank you very much. Things are getting clearer.
Colin, I notice that you have (on your Disk 1) a seperate partition labeled WinXP. Does this mean that you can boot into Win XP? Do you not run Win7 in "XP compatibility mode?" Does this indicate that running Win7 in "XP Compatibility Mode" is not as good as its name suggests?
Also, have you had any problems using ATIH2010 to restore the Win7 active partition?
Regards,
Andrew.
Running the Win7 compatibility mode or loading your own copy of XP into a Win7 virtual machine if your Windows 7 is a lesser version that doesn't give you access to the XP compatibility software, works very well for what is loosely termed "office applications" which is why MS provided it so companies could continue with legacy versions of software and still migrate to W7. I use it for an older version of WordPerfect Office and a couple of things and it works well.
It is not intended for applications such as games that use a lot of processing power and require high graphics rates although it does support modern LCD monitors such as my 24" one. It is also no good for high-quality sound editing software. Part of the problem is the emulation of lesser video and sound cards.