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Does whole PC backup also backup external drives?

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I just used whole pc backup function.  Seems very easy and quick.  Nice.  But I don't know if the backup automatically includes the data on my external drive (D) - I backed up to another drive (E) or if i need to do drive D separately?  I know, it's a newbie quiestion, but I am a newbie at backing  up.   Thanks in advance...

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Paul, the answer is 'it depends' - yes an entire PC backup can include attached external drives but whether it does or not depends on any options that you selected when performing the backup - the best method to confirm if your backup does include your drive D: would be to browse the image file and look at what it shows.  You should be able to use Windows Explorer to browse to the location where the backup image is stored, then right-click on the file and take the options for TrueImage to mount the image.  See screen shot.

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If an external drive reports itself to Windows as a fixed disk TI will include it in the backup.  If the drive reports as removable then TI will not backup the drive.   You can check this in Disk Management.

Does the Whole PC Backup  backup all users on the PC or just the user initiatiating it? (I've backed up the computer from my "Admin" User Logon so I'm hoping it does!) - I'm using Acronis True Image 2016. It may be it can only be run from the Admin User and I appreciate I can probably check but I'm in a bit of a rush so any insight from experts would be gratefully received!! Thanks.

 

 

 

AJM, welcome to these user forums.

Yes, any disk & partitions backup of your Windows OS drive / partition will backup all users on that computer, so a whole PC backup will do so too.

Acronis needs to run with Administrator privileges in order to backup OS programs and files, so that can be any administrator level account.

It is recommended that any disk or partition backup be restored using the Acronis bootable Rescue Media booted from either CD/DVD or USB stick - this is preferable over starting such a restore from within Windows as the latter will need to modify your Windows bootloader configuration in order to create a temporary Linux OS environment from which to run the Acronis application offline from Windows, unless you have enabled the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager (ASRM) which gives an F11 prompt at boot.

Thanks Steve - Very helpful, and for the welcome. This forum clearly works very well!!

Regards

Alan

Sorry  - beginner! Must have hit key twice!