TI Home 2012 recovery doesn't reproduce 2nd partition on new SSD
My old 512 GB SSD crashed, and since it is no longer produced I now got one with 500 GB as a warranty replacement. I tried to recover my installation from the last complete backup that I made prior to the crash from an external hard drive and basically it worked. My C: drive is there and with it Windows 7 and all the programs and data that I had on the drive at the time of the backup.
But the system configuration as it came from Lenovo included a second, small recovery partition Q:, and this is still missing. When doing the recovery Acronis shows me this partition, but it does not re-instate it during the recovery.
How can I "force" Acronis to reproduce the recovery partition?
I did make a full disk mode backup.
Whether you can restore that partition depends upon whether you created a full disk mode backup or not.
That's what I expected, but it's not the case, or doesn't work as it should.
Boot from the ATI bootable Rescue Media and begin the recovery process to see if that partition was included.
I did that, and I already wrote above:
When doing the recovery Acronis shows me this partition,...
BTW, OEM recovery partitions are generally useful only to restore the PC to its original factory state. Once you begin installing software and using the computer, such a restore is much less useful and much less appealing. I removed my Dell Recovery partition and thus freed up almost 20 GB of disk space.
This came to my mind, too, after I wrote my post. Thanks for confirming this!
Still, the non-working restore leaves a doubt on how reliable Acronis is. I want to find out why it didn't work. Maybe I missed something in the settings?
Does anybody else have any suggestion?
When performing the restore when booted to the CD, your restore selections should look like this.
Whatever number of partitions is included on your disk (Windows disk management graphical view) shoud be included and check marked as in this top picture.
If the restore is a disk option restore, the progam willl control the placement of partitons and user had no control over sizes or placment of partitions.
It is only in partition type restores (disk box unchecked) where the user can (or forced to) control sizes and has the responsibility of the choosing the correct partition placement and partition sizes and which partition is to be marked as active.
Signature link 3 could be useful. Inside the link
item 3 if overlaying drive C only.
item 2 if restoring all partitiions to the same or new disk.
item 2 if restoring all partitions to a larger disk.
Thank you very much, Grover!
I have been to the screen that you show in your screenshot, and tried with the Disk checkbox checked and unchecked. In both cases(!) when I clicked continue (? - not sure of the correct term as my TI is set to German) TI asked me for partition placement, but only allowed to select 1 - the other ones remained greyed out and consequently only 1 partition was created.
After reading your item 2 in signature link 3 I guess this is because I'm trying to restore Windows 7 to a slightly smaller SSD (500 instead of 512 GB) than I had before, which already held some data. I hope Grover's How to-- TIH2012-2013 Restore to larger or smaller disk will help - I did not read the whole PDF yet but the description fits my case perfectly. I will try this later today or tomorrow (no time now).
Thanks again for taking your time!
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The Lenova requries that the restore be done with the target disk placed inside the computer. Was this done?
You indicate that the small partition shows as being in your backup so this should indicate that a disk option restore should work..
Look at signature link 3 and review item #2 disk option recovery.
When performing the recovery, check mark the disk and both partitons should become checked.
When clicking next, if the backup is a disk option backup, the next screen should be the destination screen where the target disk is selected. If the backup is a disk option backup, the restore shouod bypass the individual selection of partitons and the program should restore both partitons. do select the "Recover disk signature" option which appears on the same screen where the target disk is selected.
When you get to the final summary screen, the data provided to you on this screen should indicated how many partitions are being restored.
On this screen, you have the option to proceed or cancel. If the summary shows both being restored, you can click the proceedd option.
Or, if you see only C, then no changes have been made and you can cancel the restore.
If you should have to cancel, you can retry the restore using the Tools menu "add new disk" option.
and then perform a new disk option restore with selecting only the disk as the item to be checked but both partitions should become checked after the disk box is checked.
Let us know your results.
Note: if you are forced to configure the individual partitions during the restore, this would indicate that your original backup was done by selecting the individual partitons (rather than a diskoption backup) and you will have to restore each partition individually.
If you attemping guide item #1, do be sure and also select the "recover disk signature" and the disk must be inside the Lenova before restoring.