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My issues but just a FYI and maybe something can be looked at

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Now before I start this is clearly my fault here. I have 2 ssds on my system and 3 hdd's.

I use acronis to image my main ssd. I also did a clean install of Window 7 to replace my Windows 8 install. I then went back to Windows 8 without issues.

Then decided to go back to Windows 7. I rebooted my machine hit F11 to enter Acronis and proceeded to recover my computer. Well I selected the image to recover. Then not paying attention I selected the wrong drive to restore to. THIS IS MY FAULT NO FAULT OF ACRONIS. I proceeded to do the restore and noticed I selected my 3tb drive instead of my SSD. I proceeded to stop the restore. I then see there is no drive showing in disk management for that drive. Well there goes 1.9tb of data. Nothing critical tons of media files. At least I had 5 files on usb stick that I had not watched.

What I was going to suggest here is there any way that you can put a popup or something to reconfirm that is the drive you want to restore indicating the drive size of the restore drive. If I had a second confirmation showing me the drive size I probably would have caught it. You do indicate that all data on that drive will be lost but something further like drive label and drive size may help. I had no intention of restoring a 128gb os image to a 3tb drive.

Not sure if you folks at Acronis see this as an issue but maybe its something easy that can be done to prevent this. Yes is this is totally my fault no issues what so ever with Acronis.

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It's unfortunate. I appreciate you sharing your mishap to try to alert other users.

1. We advise that the safest way to restore images is to use the ATI bootable Rescue Media.

2. I recommend against the associated Acronis Startup Recovery Manager. If activated, it modifies your system drive Master Boot Record (MBR), which can cause problems with multi-boot managers and other low-level disk utilities. I prefer to use the ATI bootable Rescue Media.

3. You should add a recognizable label to every disk, so you can uniquely identify it without the drive letter. When recovering a disk or partition image, it's recommended to do so from the ATI bootable Rescue Media. As the Rescue Media is based on Linux, disks will enumerate differently so that E: in Windows may not be E: in the Rescue Media. That's why you need to be able to identify each partition by name, not by letter.

If you had seen a label such as "3TB Media Drive", you might have known not to restore to that drive.

Seth,
I feel sorry for what has happened to you but your are not the first nor will you be the last.
Your experience is one reason why so many of take the time to name each of our partitions with unique names.
For example, I name my Drive C to be
Win7-64_C
Data_D
or
XP-Pro_C
Storage_D

This becomes part of the backup information stored so when you are restoring a particular partition,
you match what is to be restored (the backup source Win7-64_C) to the target destination which also must read Win7_64_C
Then you know you have a source and target match. There are other helpers such as disk size or partition size which can be helpful. Some users will even disconnect disks not in use to prevent a user error.