Scared to Restore Partition
Hi. I use Acronis True Image 11. I'm on Windows 7 with a powerful (e.g., 16GB RAM) machine.
I have an Acronis backup of the "D" partition of my "C" drive. On my computer, the "D" partition evaporated, so I want to re-create it using Acronis' Restore function.
Of course, I want/need to keep my "C" drive and its primary partition; it has my entire system on it. I can't afford to use it.
I set it up the Restore operation, but here's something Acronis says it's going to do: It's going to delete a or the partition on my C drive. I'm very afraid of losing my entire main "C" drive partition. Operation 1 of 2 reads like this:
Operation 1 of 2 (Reboot required)
Deleting partition
Hard disk: 1
Drive letter: C:
File system: NTFS
Volume label: OS
Size: 1.356 TB.
Operation 2 of 2 is Restoring partition. That one doesn't scare me.
PLEASE: Will I lose the "C" drive if I do this? Will I lose the main, operating system, functional partition on the "C" drive if I do this?
Thanks.
. . . Steve
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"What do you mean it evaporated?" Use the Windows Disk management module and look at the current configuration of your disk.
Is there unallocated space where D once was or has C been expanded to consume the space where D was.
Before you can decide what needs to be done, you need to know more about your existing condition.
If your backup was a complete backup of all partitions on your disk, then one option can be to perform a disk option restore which will recreate you entire disk as it was at time of backup. The old backup would overwrite the new drive C and give you an old drive C and drive D as it was at backup time. If that is what you want to do, then use Item 2 at this link. This is your best chance of success but may not be your first choice.
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/29618
If the space once occupied by drive D IS currently unallocated, then you can restore the backup of the old partition into the unallocated space. Item 3 at the same link shows how to restore C only but since you want to restore D, then substitute the partition description of the example C with the that of the partition of Drive D. Be cautious in your use of drive letters because that can lead to mistakes. Use the partitions descriptions and restore the backup of D partition into the unallocated space. And yes, no restore can take place without the deletion of the old partitions with the replacement of the backup partitions.
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