Backup Partition question
Yes I have True Image 2014 and I restored my system and everything is totally fine besides on thing. When I look and see how many partitions I have windows says I now have 6 partitions instead of the 5 I backed up. I backed up 5 partitions the one partition that seems to be out of place is a 500 MB partition in front it says it's Unallocated space. I can format it but it's not normally here. Does anyone have any idea why it would add another partition? Just to confirm that I did not do anything I reinstalled windows and redid the backup with the same results. I would backup 5 partitions and when I restored it I would have 6. Any thoughts? Is this normal?
Thanks,
Tony
No, it's just a normal hard drive. I tried and installed windows again and backup and restore with Acronis but with the same results. I always get an extra partition of about 500 MB. I don't really understand why but I guess that's what it does.
Post us a screen capture of your Windows Disk Management as a start.
One possibility is that you now have a lettered partiton where before the restore, the same partition existed but had no drive letter and thus did not show as available for backups.
When creating a backup, I prefer to use the disk image metho rather than an individual selection of all partitons. This is illustrated in link 2 below, the first few pictures.
Here is a picture, I actually reinstalled windows and their was 3 partitions. A 300 MB Recovery Partition, a 100MB EFI System Partition and Drive C. After I restored from True Image the 544 MB Unallocated Partition showed up. I don't know why and I can't figure out how it got here.
Let's look one step further.
From a command prompt
Type
DISKPART
LIST DISK
SELECT DISK 0
LIST PARTITION
The procedure is the same as this example below and let's see what your results produce.
In particular, is this a GPT style partitioning and the space shown as unalloa ted may not be as such.
http://forum.acronis.com/system/files/resize/mvp/user285/misc/show-disk…
I also had the same thing happen on a UEFI/GPT Windows 8.1 system. The unallocated space at the beginning of the disk is not a partition. It is simply unallocated space. I can only speculate the space results from Acronis' alignment process. I was able to eliminate the wasted space by restoring the disk with another backup program.
Yes that's what's happening to me as well. It's just unallocated space at the beginning of the disk. I'm not sure why it's happening.
Paul, what program did you use to restore your computer? I don't mind buying something else, I Just thought True Image was the best thing but I'm having issue.
Thanks,
Tony
I used EaseUs Todo Backup. You can use the free version as long as the Linux recovery CD can see your hard drives.
Hi
Would someone be kind enough to tell me whether or not this backup partition bug has been fixed? I intend to upgrade to ATI 2014.
Thanks.