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I have a TIB file that is a FULL backup of a drive in my HP All-In-On. When I select the items to recover I select "Disk 1" which contains four items 1 - "NTFS (OS) (C:), 2 - "NTFS (HP_RECOVERY) (D:)", 3 - MBR and Track 0" and 4 - NTFS (SYSTEM) and I want to recover all four items. thus by selecting Disk 1 all four items are selected and I click on the Next button.

I'm now presented with a screen "Specify recovery settings of Partition 1-1" what the heck is partition 1-1?

I tried to find a description of this in the UG and was not able to find anything that seemed to match what was being presented to me.

On this screen it states "Partition location (required)" (again I have no idea what the heck is being recovered at this point, e.g. Partition 1-1 means. When I click on the "New Location" link I get a new screen showing (1) the USB drive that contains the TIB file this is identified as Disk 1, (2) Disk 2 - the thumbdrive, this is the drive I booted from, (3) Disk 3 (this is the drive I want to recover to but it shows two locations (a) NTFS (SYSTEM) (D:) Pri, Act and (b) NTFS (OS) (E:) Pri and I'm forced to pick one. But not knowing what the heck Partition 1-1 is or how big it is I have no idea what to select.

In that I'm attempting to recover the entire drive I expected to select "the" target drive and TI would then start the recovery process. IMHO something that should be super simple has become super complex.

I then went to Tools and Utilities expecting to see a utility that would delete the partitions and all I see is DriveCleanser. I suspect this would do this but it will take a LONG time in that it will be performing a triple pass overwrite. So I selected the "Fast" method and TI reports that it will take 1 HR 6 minutes (1 TB drive). So much for FAST.

Needless to say I'm not a happy camper at this point.

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Most likely, your backup was done by checking each partition individually (but all partitions checked) to be included within the backup,so your backup type was a partition type backup.
whereas, if you had selected the "Switch to disk mode" and performed "disk image" or "disk mode" backup, your recovery selection of the "disk" would not have been forced you into messing with each partition. This selection of disk mode is illustrated in link 2, first picture at that link. When restoring a disk mode backup, all you would have had to do would have been to select the target disk and select the "recovery disk signature".

At this point, why not just recover your Windows Drive C partition and let the other partitions remain as is.

Know your partitions size and used space so you don't choose the wrong partiton to receive the restore.
You can't use drive letters as the guide.

Look at link 3 below and select item 3 inside that link to restore only drive C.

If you want your future disk restore to be much less confusion, create disk image or disk mode backup in the future.

if you are forced into another restore of the complete disk, then I would suggest you use Link 3, and option 1 inside that link and restore each partition individually. Do be sure and know the partition sequence of the old disk so the partitions can be restored in the same sequence. Do review the link 3, item 1 to remind yourself of some restore pointers.

Edit:
I am hopefully assuming that your restore was performed via the TI Recovery CD as restoring from the CD is the preferred method when restoring all partitions of the system disk.