Recover image to smaller disk bug/error? Destination volumes/unallocated space restore to options all disabled

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I boot from Acronis Recovery CD, select the (full disk) backup, select volumes, specify destinations for the MBR etc, but for the main drive I cannot select the partition I want to restore to - all partitions are disabled. The original disk was 1TB with a few GBs free, but I excluded most of the drive, so the image itself is only 50GBs and compression ratio was around 2.1, so the image would easily fit on the remaining (277GB) partition. Yet I am not permitted to select a target partition.

This guide claims I am able to do what I want

https://kb.acronis.com/content/6042

yet at step 7 all the partitions and unallocated space entries are greyed, I get no Volume Parameters option, and no Acronis Active Restore option beneath the Where to back up to options on the step 7 screenshot.

How can I get this "Volume Parameters" screen?

This post

http://www.sevenforums.com/software/263945-acronis-would-not-restore-ne…

is the closest I can find to my problem, but I think it is a different problem as he says the target drives aren't recognized, whereas I can select the target volumes for the MBR, OEM recovery volume, etc. He is using a different Acronis product and says the Acronis Plus Pack fixed it, but I have no machine I can install Acronis to (all other machines are Win 8, which bluescreens on install). (It would also take several days to download large images here in Ethiopia, but I'll do it if it'll fix my issue.)

Please any ideas?

Thanks

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 20:37
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Exclusions doesn't affect calculation of free space, so the product considers it as a volume with ~1TB used space and won't restore to 500GB disk. AFAIK the proposed fix is not as easy as 'just use the correct size taking exclusions into account'.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 15:34
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Exclusions are clearly hard to perform, as you're working at file system level but directories are specified at or above volume level. In fact it is this function that for me makes Acronis shine over others - as far as I know only Acronis and Paragon offer this invaluable feature, yet it is invaluable because I need my data files backing up at a daily or weekly interval, yet I certainly do not need to back up my entire OS etc disk image at this frequency - that can be quarterly or less.

From your response I can give up hope of this being fitted into Acronis B&R 10. However I'd imagine it might be possible simply to store the compression ratio in the backup metadata. This would then give you a very approximate estimate of image size which you could use with a wide margin. In my case the backup uses 48GBs of space, and the compression ratio was 2.1, so the expanded disk image is probably 101GBs, and therefore safe with a good margin of error to restore to a partition of 150GBs or greater. I am being prevented from restoring it to a 277GB partition, which seems unnecessary.

Thanks for your quick and useful reply; even if it wasn't what I wanted to hear at least I can now move on.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 13:38