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Restoring differential backup

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I apologise for the silly question, but I'm a rooky and in full panic trying to recover from a major system crash of a complex set up.

I'm trying to restore disks from TIH+p. (I'm using the most recent build bootable CD). My backups were chains of Complete and Differential.

My doubt is: do I need to restore FIRST complete bkup and THEN the last differential bkup file
OR
should I just select the last differential bkup file and TIH does the rest (restore relevant complete and modify with differential differences)?

What about sector by sector copy/restore?

Too confused? I am...

Thanks for any help

Umberto

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Edited:

Select last or any diff and the program will install the full plus your selected diff. One restore will do it all.

The program may choose to do a sector restore on its own but that will be a program choice.

Check this list. If restoring back to the same disk or a same sized disk, item #2 at this link will suffice.
If restoring to a larger disk, then item #1.

http://forum.acronis.com/forum/29618

Thank you GroverH.
After useless recovery of whole disks I embarked in a silly endless attempt with (complete) file recovery (still running). The disks are the same and seem to be ok. The problem probably is in the "strange" windows 7 setup I had (system on SSD C: disk but user files on hardware raid 5 E: volume -3 disks, intel raid-).
If I find a way of having the system back on and running without a flat system reinstall I'll let you know. (Yet I expected that restoring the two whole disks would have given me back the system as it was at the moment of the last back up :-< )
Umberto