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Recovery with Unallocated space.

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My PC has two drives:                                                                                                                                                          1.The Samsung SSD of size 238.5 GB. It has an Unallocated space 23.85 GB, created by the Samsung Magician for Over Provision (10%).                                                                                                                                                     2.The WD HDD of size 931.5 GB. User folders (Downloads, Documents, etc.) were relocated from the SSD Windows 7(C:) onto the HDD Data (D:). So the drive Data (D:) is not totally independent from drive Windows 7(C:).

I created backup image of the SSD and HDD using Rescue Media CD. I selected all partitions:                                         

Disk 1:

-NTFS (Windows 7) (C:)

-NTFS (System Reserved) (M:)     

-MBR and Track0

Disk 2:

- NTFS (Data) (D:)

-MBR and Track 0                                                                                                                                                                     

What is the safest method to recover partitions of the SSD and HDD from this backup on the same SSD and HDD? Is it better to use “Add New Disk” option before performing the disks recovery. I am not afraid to loose data on the drive Data (D:) because I scheduled file and folder backup of the Data (D:) every night.

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What happens if you do this:

  1. Open Windows File Explorer and navigate to this backup file.
  2. Double click on the file.
  3. Attempt to open what you see, folders and or drives.
  4. Can you do that successfully?

If you can do the above without error including navigation of User folders located in the drive C:\ folder then I think you could restore the backup as is.  If you cannot do that then I would recommend making single full disk backups of both drives then when restoring if necessary you can restore both disks individually.  I do this on an old system I have.

The only way to know for sure if a restore works is to run it and see.