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Not enough free space to restore backup

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I have a new, potentially big, problem with TIH 2011 with Plus Pack build 6868. I have done backups and restores before but now when I try to restore my last full backup I get a message that there is not enough free space and I cannot proceed.

I have tried making a new backup and then immediately to restore it to the same partition and I still get the message. The partition size has not changed. This is potentially disastrous if i am not going to be able to restore a backup to the same partition.

Urgent help, please!

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Assuming that the problem is not that yu are failing to tell recovery that you want to overwrite existing partions on the target disk -- you can try this to get around the issue: do not check the boxes to backup up mbr and disk signature--we can go back and do those later - only select the partitions. You can then specify how much of the disk is to be taken up by the partition; then resstore the partiton. then go back and selec the mbr & disk signature and restore those.