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Restore procedure for Acronis TI 2015 with Windows 7

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I have not been able to do a restore to my Windows 7 PC using Acronis TI 2015 build 6613. I boot from the rescue disk, select Recover My Disks / Files & Folders, then Recover whole disks and partitions.

The next step on “What to recover starts the problem”. My C drive has 3 partitions:

39 MB OEM, Recovery, and C (OS). The recovery section of the owner’s manual does not show any details for the next required steps. It just shows the last step showing it is ready to do the recovery. I had the same problem trying to restore from TI 2014. I had no problem doing a restore from a Windows XP machine, probably because it only contained one partition on the C drive. If anyone has a document with instructions on how to select the options for the destination side of the process from a Windows 7 machine, I sure would appreciate it if you would post it.

Thanks for your time and interest

Charles Ranheim

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I can only speak in general terms, but you all really only need the C (OS) partition and a suitable boot sector that knows how to boot using the OS partition. The rest, OEM and Recovery, is just nice to have.

Do you have any idea of what is inside the images you have? The whole disk with all 3 partitions? Or just the C partition?

The tricky part of restoring all 3 partitions is that they usually needs to be located in the exact same spot as on the orignal disk. Same size, same layout, same type. Otherwise the utilities on the OEM partition (which I guess enables you to reset/reinstall the PC to its OEM/factory setup - with no data, no users, no nothing, just a clean PC) will not work correctly. So if you have all 3 partitions in the image file, you should be able to simply restore all of them in the most stupid fashion possible. That is, restore them to their original position and size on the disk.

If you don't have the OEM and Recovery partitions in the image, concentrate on restoring the C (OS) partion. With just a little bit of luck, all the required boot information is either already in place on the disk, or will be recreated when you restore the C partition. When you are done, try booting the system and see if it identifies the restored C partition as the boot partition and proceeds to boot up Windows.

Depending upon how your system is confugred, my signature link 3 below can help.

Inside that link, the item 2 can help when restoring the entire disk, or item 3 for restoring C only.