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Recovering one program from a partition backup

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The user interface in doing a recovery for one program or folder makes me very nervous because I am afraid of doing a total restore.
Please can you assure me that if I proceed in the menu I will have the option to select folders to restore and will not restore the total. Is there any way to find out if there are any other operational files that are not in the program directory?

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This is a second question. I am attempting to recover a partition into a flash drive that does not have 5% spare capactity. Is it simply a matter of deleting some files and then recovering them with the other stuff I really need to recover.

1. You cannot recover an installed Windows application. You would have to recover the entire disk or OS partition. That is a Windows limitation, not an Acronis issue.

2. Select a Files & Folders restore, which will allow you to select what files/folders you want to restore. It will not restore an entire disk/partition.

3. I don't entirely understand what you want to do. You want to restore a partition from your HD to a flash drive?
As for space, obviously if the flash drive doesn't have sufficient free space, you'd have to delete some stuff yourself first.

I have a partition backup and I thought I could use it to restore the files in one directory which does happen to be a program directory. The more I look the more confused I am becoming because it seems as if I cannot do this but would be forced into doing a partition recovery which is not necessary.

Yes, you may restore files from that partition backup. You may also restore files from it to the Programs directory, or to any directory you like.

Mervyn Thomas wrote:
The user interface in doing a recovery for one program or folder makes me very nervous because I am afraid of doing a total restore.
Please can you assure me that if I proceed in the menu I will have the option to select folders to restore and will not restore the total. Is there any way to find out if there are any other operational files that are not in the program directory?

Hi Mervyn,
It is possible to recover one program from your partition backup. I know one that kind of tool as Remo Recover and it will give you the facility to choose your particular recovered folder to restore in your system. Try it out.

David Parkar wrote:
Mervyn Thomas wrote:
The user interface in doing a recovery for one program or folder makes me very nervous because I am afraid of doing a total restore.
Please can you assure me that if I proceed in the menu I will have the option to select folders to restore and will not restore the total. Is there any way to find out if there are any other operational files that are not in the program directory?

Hi Mervyn,
It is possible to recover one program from your partition backup. I know one that kind of tool as Remo Recover and it will give you the facility to choose your particular recovered folder to restore in your system. Try it out.

This is an illusion. It isn't simply a case of restoring a folder in \Program Files as installed programs also make changes to \Windows\System32 and to the registry, without which a program cannot run.