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I am running Acronis TI Home 2010 and Disk Director 11 on my Windows 7 Pro 64 bit system (latest versions of TI, DD, and Win 7).

I have been backing up my system drive to an external drive and also restoring that image to another drive (sata drive connected via a usb dock) just to have a drive ready to go in case my system drive fails. I have been using the 'Recover whole disks and partitions' option and restoring the whole system partition (I previously restored MBR and Track 0, but since that hasn't changed, I don't restore that every day).

I have a lot of free space on the drive I am restoring to that I'd like to use to back up other data, so here's what I was thinking:

1. Add a 2nd partition to the drive I restore to (and backup/copy other personal data files there)
2. Continue to restore my system drive backups to the first partition

What do I need to do with MBR and Track 0? The disks (the original system disk and the target disk I restore to) will have different layouts. The system disk is one partition, the target disk will have two.

If I restore the MBR and Track 0 from the system drive (which I need to do to get it to boot if I ever need it) won't that mess up the 2nd partition on the target drive? I though Track 0 described the partition layout of the drive.

A little confused and would love any expert guidance here. I could keep doing what I am doing, but I'd be 'wasting' about 150GB on my target drive. That's the space that's left over after I restore the system drive.

Thanks!

Wed, 03/23/2011 - 18:39
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When you restore MBR it doesn't overwrite partition table, so the 2nd partition will be safe. But you need to make sure it's not restored as the whole disk - it will happen if you check all partitions and MBR - it will check the disk also.

Wed, 03/23/2011 - 19:25
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Thanks dev-anon. Let me make sure I understand what you're saying. As long as I don't restore the whole disk, just the system partition, I can still boot the recovery disk if needed and the its partition table will reflect the 2nd partition. I also understand you're saying that I can restore the system partition and the MBR/Track 0 option as long as I don't do it by checking the whole disk. I have to do it in two separate restores to keep the destination disk OK.

Is that correct?

Wed, 03/23/2011 - 19:33