restoring backups - expanding system reserved partition
Hello,
I've just purchased an upgrade to v11.5 to copy my system disk from a HDD (velociraptor 450gb) to an 480gb SSD.
I installed the upgrade on win 8 machine and backed up my system disk to a NAS drive and a local drive.
I created an emergency recovery disk.
First I tried recovering the system disk from the backup on the NAS whilst the old system disk was in place using the full copy of Acronis to the ssd and this gave me a few errors in the log and was giving sluggish performance with the new SSD. I assumed these problems where due to the temporary presence of 2 active system disks.
The next attempt I removed the active boot disk and booted off the recovery media and restored to the SSD there was only a single error message after the install this time regarding an incorrect BIOS no. on the SSD whatever that means.?????
The machine booted up correctly.
I then went in to windows disk manager and found that ACRONIS had somehow misread the system reserved partition size of 110mb as 1000gb had written it all over 2 of my other 1tb drives destroying their contents and creating 1TB partitions containing 100mb of data and making them active!!!
I had spotted this once and stopped the restore and rebooted but obviously too late. I missed the second instance. :-(
In my case it destroyed 1 TB of data which I have backed up elsewhere and some other data which was itself a backup on route to a remote location via portable HDD.
Be VERY VERY careful using the restore function in Acronis 11.5 it misread the size of the system reserved partition and chose to put it on a different drive which it thought it needed for space reasons this was not made very clear and why did it expand the space requirement 1000 times?
Obviously I am not keen to try to replicate this.
Just posting this as warning to others.
regards
Mark Rogers

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