Windows 7 Restoring two images to one drive
I made an image of the disk of a Gateway DX4831-01e running windows 7 64 bit and Acronis True Image home 2010. The disk was partitioned such that windows and acronis the one disk was actually two disks, and assigned them different drive letters, not different partitions (there is only one disk in the PC(. When I backed up the disk I selected both of the disks. Now, I want to restore the disk, but Acronis says I can only restore the image of one of the disks, even though both images in fact belong on the same disk: when I select one image to restore, it will not let me put the other image on the same disk.
Anybody know how to do solve this? Can you restore a disk to a partition? Thanks in advance for your help.
Poor description, sorry. I am trying to restore two partitions to one drive. True Image is calling the image of each partition a separate disk. It My choices to restore are either "whole disk" or "files / folders". Where in True Image can I select "restore partition" and have the images of two separate partitions restored to one disk? Thanks.
Forgot to say the OS Is Windows 7 Home Premium.
Select the Recover whole disks and partitions option. In the What to recover section, select the desired partition to restore.
In your case, it sounds like you'll need to do two separate restores (one for each partition). You would also need to make sure any resizing is done so that both partitions will fit on the one drive (the resize option is available in the restore wizard). If they won't fit, you won't be able to force it.
Some screenshots showing where you're having the problems might help.
Thanks for the reply - I will try to partition the disk then restore each partition archive to the appropriate created partition. Since the disk I was restoring had only one partition, I assume True Image would not let me write two images to it. Sorry for being dense, will let you know how it goes. Will include screen shots if I am unsuccessful.
You should be able to remove the existing partition and then restore to unallocated space. You can do this using TI (Tools & Utilities >> Add New Disk.
You should also be able to resize when restoring over an existing partition (just shrink it enough to allow the desired amount of unallocated space for the other partition).
Ok, failure. I attached some screen photos.
The pic "main partition selected for restore" shows that the two original partitions on the original drive are saved as two separate images. I can only select one image at a time to restore to a single destination disk.
When I confirm the restore, I get the message that the destination disk has to be empty, see "restore requires destination disk to be empty". I can't select which partition on the destination drive I want the image restored to. How can I restore two images to the same disk if the destination disk must always be empty?
Had a disk write error. I do not believe the disk I am writing to is bad, it is a new disk.
Have you tried the ISO download version of TI (in your Acronis account)? It may contain newer drivers.
Have you tried the quiet acpi=off noapic option detailed in Section II of the Read Before You Post thread?
Either of these may help if the error is being caused by TI and not the drive.
Bad hard drive was the problem, thanks for the help.