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Acronis 2019 won't restore to a screwed up partition

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I had earlier screwed up my drive C and need to restore it. So I am using a 2019 USB thumb drive which was made on Windows 10 as WinPE. I selected NTFS (C:), MBR and Track 0 and NTFS (Boot). When I proceeded to the New location selection I selected C and clicked Accept. Then on the next screen I changed the mount to Auto then Next. But that recycled the screen and showed New Location was not selected. So I tried selecting that again but that hung (the mouse will still move). I waited about 10 minuets then tried New location again but no reaction. So I clicked Cancel and tried again. This time I just selected C. I clicked New location again and after about 1 minuet it came around and I selected C for the New Partition Location and Accept and Next on the next screen (without changing the drive letter this time). Then I clicked Proceed and it went.

So I think there is something wrong with (a) Auto or (b) MBR or (c) NTFS or (c) some combination of those when restoring to a screwed up drive C

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Eddy, any restore will wipe the target partition or drive as the first action, so there shouldn't be an issue in restoring to the drive.  If necessary, you could manually wipe the target drive or partition before asking ATI to restore to it.

I can't wipe it myself because it is an internal drive. I need a solution to this because trying a restore of each separately cause a boot error.

Eddy, if you have a full disk backup of this internal drive from a time when everything was working, then restoring that full disk backup to the drive would automatically wipe the drive as step 1 of the restore process.

See the PDF document in forum topic: [How to] recover an entire disk backup - which shows how to do this.

Drive C is not in use because I'm using a USB drive. Since I must preserve my 2nd partition then I'll remove the drive and insert it into an external device then copy everything from the 2nd partition to another drive. But if that works will you refer this to development?

Eddy, please see my previous reply to you in your other current topic.  I am just another user and cannot refer anything to Acronis development - you would need to open a Support Case with Acronis to go that route.