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Correct assignment of partitions for Restore? win password location?

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I have created recently a system backup with Acronis.

Now I want to perform a Recovery.

When I boot Acronis from USB flash drive I have to specify "What to recover".

It looks like the attached snapshot.

Now when I click "Next" button I am asked for the partition location of "Partition 3-1"

Which component from the snapshot is meant?

Similarly I am asked for the partition location of "Partition C"

Is the NTFS (Win10) C: partition meant?

Which component contains the Windows 10 account passwords (I accidentally changed my account password and want to set it back to the one of the previous Acronis Backup)

 

 

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Peter, when doing a recovery of the system disk, then it is best to do so as a Disk recovery which then doesn't require you to specify the settings for each and every partition individually.

To do a Disk recovery, simply select only the top Disk box, i.e. Disk 3 in your image, and it will automatically select all the associated partitions then you just need to select the target disk for where the image will be recovered to.

To my knowledge, Windows Account passwords are stored encrypted in the Windows registry files which in turn are included in the main OS C: partition data.

Please see forum topic: [How to] recover an entire disk backup - and in particular the attached PDF document which shows a step-by-step tutorial for doing this type of recovery / restore.

Thats exactly what I DO NOT want to do.

My WinOS partition C: has a size of 100 GB, my Data partition D: approx 2 TB

So if i would do a full disk backup the target backup file would be unnecessarily huge and fat.

If Acronis offers system-only backup then it should be possible to do a system-only recovery.

The only problem is the naming.

So is there a solution for that simple problem?

 

Peter, in your earlier screenshot, Acronis will restore your smaller EFI System partition first, so that will be partition 3-1, then the C: partition is self-explanatory, especially as those are the only partitions that are selected in the image.

Normally when you go into the option to select the restore location, the size of the partition will be indicated which is another confirmation of which one is in focus.