Can I Do The Following With Acronis?
I have data that i would like to keep on 300GB external hard drive and data that i would like to delete. If i will backup my whole system hard drive with Acronis, will it overwrite all data on external hard drive?
Should i test backup after that with booting?
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Hmmm if i have 2 partitions C:/ and D:/ (which is Windows recovery partition) should i image partition C:/ or both? Partition D:/ is important to me because it contains my OEM Windows.
What would you recommend to do taking into account i have space for both? How will i see both partitions on my external hard drive? Will it be 1 big file or 2 files to C:/ and D:/ respectively? Also what is "TIB files"?
Thanks.
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You should image both. You will see on big .TIB file that contains all the information needed to recovery your system disk. For example, if you name your name your backup file "MySystem" you will get a MySystem.tib file for that backup.
Check the True Image Home 2011 Lite Guide right under Useful Links, on the left of this conversation.
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My system restore partition is 7GB of space. When i create D:/ partition on my new hard drive that i will replace failed hard drive with, should i limit its size to 7GB only? I ask because if i restore image of previous D:/ drive that was 7GB then new hard drive will only see 7GB or there will be problems?
Also do you know how i can start system recovery from D:/ partition on a new drive when booting? If it is bootable then fine, but i do not remember having option in BIOS of my laptop to change boot drive letter.
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When you restore, if you restore the *entire disk* is one pass, ATI will scale the partitions to occupy all the space on the new bigger disk. You DO NOT want this to happen.
To avoid this, you will have to restore from the Acronis recovery CD, one partition at a time. First C:\, then D:\/ When you restore C:\ you will be able to resize it (make it bigger), while leaving 7GB after it for D:\ to be restored. Do not resize D:\.
You can restore one partition at a time, no need to reboot in between. When both partitions are restored, restore the MBR+track0 with the disk signature.
If you do this, your recovery partition will still be working.
If you lose it, don't worry, you have now image backups!
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Pat L wrote:When you restore, if you restore the *entire disk* is one pass, ATI will scale the partitions to occupy all the space on the new bigger disk. You DO NOT want this to happen.
If i understand correctly you mean it will occupy ALL space on 250GB new hard drive even though my C:/ partition is 73GB and D:/ partition is 7GB? That means no free space anymore?
Pat L wrote:To avoid this, you will have to restore from the Acronis recovery CD, one partition at a time. First C:\, then D:\/ When you restore C:\ you will be able to resize it (make it bigger), while leaving 7GB after it for D:\ to be restored. Do not resize D:\.
Why would i resize D:/ ? I don't know but i think it must be fixed size in order for system restore to function?
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No, you misunderstood. There are 2 different things: the size of the partition and the space inside the partition that is used. If you have a partition size smaller than the disk, there is unallocated space on the disk. The OS cannot use this unallocated space. If you resize a partition so that its new size occupies as much disk space as possible, this will not have any effect on the space inside the partition.
You should not resize D: You will resize only C:. You just need to leave some space after C:on the disk to be able to restore D:, without resizing it.
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Pat L wrote:No, you misunderstood. There are 2 different things: the size of the partition and the space inside the partition that is used. If you have a partition size smaller than the disk, there is unallocated space on the disk. The OS cannot use this unallocated space.
Unless it is FDISK'ed and formatted?
Pat L wrote:If you resize a partition so that its new size occupies as much disk space as possible, this will not have any effect on the space inside the partition.
I did not know resizing partition does not destroy data. I even did not hear about programs that are able to resize partition. All i know is to FDISK and format.
Pat L wrote:You should not resize D: You will resize only C:. You just need to leave some space after C:on the disk to be able to restore D:, without resizing it.
I don't think i need to do resizing later after i buy new hard drive, FDISK and format it in 2 partitions - most space for C:/ and the least space for D:/ relevant to system restore size. It will be already allocated for everything.
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