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Try&Decide System Reserved

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The Try&Decide default settings only protects the OS partition on the (C:) drive and not the System Reserved partition on the (C:) drive.

Will this cause any issues?

Why would you only want to protect the OS partition and not the System Reserved partition as well?

If changes are made to the OS partition and the System Reserved partition, but then only the OS partition is restored, wouldn't that create some kind of issue, being their data is no longer in sync?

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I can only suggest reading the information provided for Try & Decide in the Acronis User Manual, and in particular the section on 'Limitations in using Try&Decide' where it has the following statements:

Please be aware that Try&Decide cannot track changes in disk partitions, so you will be unable to use the Try mode for virtual operations with partitions such as resizing partitions or changing their layout. In addition, you must not use the Try&Decide and disk defragmentation or disk error checking utilities at the same time, because this can irreparably corrupt the file system, as well as make the system disk unbootable.

The System Reserved / EFI System partitions cannot be changed directly via normal user activity unless using an application intended to touch the boot configuration files which would likely fall under the category of changes in disk partitions.

I do not use Try & Decide personally and have it disabled due to its incompatibility with Windows Memory / Core Isolation (see forum topic: Incompatible Driver(s): tib.sys? | Acronis Forum for information that issue).