Saving To/Restoring From *Hidden* system areas not possible?

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Hello. Please could some people (or Acronis staff) confirm the following severe observation?

When I want to backup partitions, TIH lists all hidden and unhidden partitions to select from. So it is possible to backup *any* partition of any HDD-type-like medium (HDD, SDD, formatted USB pen, etc.).

But when I am prompted to save the *.tib-image file, I can only select to save to unhidden areas (=partitions) of my computer system.

Also.

When I want to do a restore, I can only select to restore from an unhidden storage place (unhidden HDD-partition, SDD-partition, USB pen-partition) with the unhidden *.tib-image file in it. In other words, if my *.tib-image file lies (somehow) in a hidden partition of my HDD, then TIB wont be able to use it (because it cant find it!): it is not possible to restore a *.tib-file which is saved in a hidden area of my computer system.

I mean.. this cant be true! Please could a couple of users comment on this and or confirm my observation? Please.

Thanks.

dim 23/05/2010 - 15:35
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Hello again Peter!

Was you observe is true, but think about this a moment. A TIB file contains your disk image (of however many partitions, unhidden or hidden) but it is a file and must follow rules of file systems. One cannot access file systems of hidden partitions (which is why they are hidden in the first place, especially in the context of multibooting, like in your Disk Director thread). So this behavior is entirely expected and certainly not any design flaw. Basically hidden partition = inaccessible file system. You can't mount (i.e., assign a drive "letter" to them) a hidden partition, and if a partition can't be mounted, you can't access the files.

dim 23/05/2010 - 19:11
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Hello Gary, nice to see you!

Thanks for the excellent explanation. Now I am getting it :)

I thought that i had in mind that the competitors' products are able to restore from hidden partitions (and maybe also prompt to save to them), e.g. the legendary PowerQuest Drive Image, but then i checked and tested all other competitors (PowerQuest, Norton, Paragon, etc.) and could not but confirm our understanding of the situation. None of the products can do it. And you delivered the explanation -- so logical! :D

Ok, but you know, some notebook vendors sell their notebooks with hidden partitions. And on those hidden partitions are recovery images of the (C:) volume, files are often *.pqi or *.v2i (in 700MB-chunks). In addition, they sell Windows Recovery CDs (with the \i386-folder, plus mainboard drivers etc.) to install from scratch.

And if the HDD is large enough, it is not such a bad idea to save'n store a rescue image (*.tib) on a separate (and hidden) partition. -- i am going to do it, too :)=)

Thanks for the great insight!

Peter

lun 24/05/2010 - 17:09
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i need to correct myself. The Paragon products *are* very well able to save to hidden areas (=unmounted partitions) and to restore images/backups from such hidden partitions (and i am saving to post screenshots of it .. since this is an Acronis forum). but i dont care too much. I am very satisfied with the sleekness of Acronis products.

it would be just cool to see such a wealth of functionality (in a more robust manner) in future Acronis releases.

mar 25/05/2010 - 22:31
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Hello,

Gary, thanks for your assistance.

Peter, we really appreciate your suggestions. I've forwarded your request to the appropriate department, so most likely this feature will be available in future versions of Acronis True Image.

Please let me know if you need any further help.

Thank you.

mer 26/05/2010 - 07:25
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