Can ATI v11 NOT resize or realign my partition when I restore my WinXP partition?
I have made partition backups of my windows XP partition using ATI v11. After making the backups I have changed the size and the alignment of all partitions on my primary drive using a gparted boot disk and I would like to be able to use ATI v11 to restore one of my backup XP images to my new, resized, realigned C drive. When I do the restore, ATI v11 realigns the partition to the standard XP alignment of 63 sectors. I want ATI v11 to just leave my partition at the new size and alignment that I have given it, and restore the windows XP image without realigning the partition.
Is there any way to get ATI v11 to NOT REALIGN my partition when I do a restore?
Thank you.
Pat,
Thanks for your response. I am trying to do as you suggest. I can partition my drive as I want using gparted boot disk, and with gparted I can verify that my new system partition has the exact size and alignment that I want. I have made an acronis boot disk, from within ATIH v11.0.8053, by executing Tools|"Create Bootable Rescue Media", containing ATIH the full version. I can then boot with this acronis disk and can restore my desired WINXP system, and I can then boot normally into WinXP, but the problem is that ATI changes both the size and the alignment of my partition, and I can't see any way to get ATI to just use my partition without changing it.
My ATI user manual has a section "Acronis True Image Home"->Restore->"Restored Partition Resizing" that says that I should be able to choose restore options of
Yes, I want to resize partitions
No, I do not want to resize partitions
but this choice is never offered when I run ATI and do a restore.
Another part of the manual says that I can edit default restore options by selecting Tools->Options->"Default Restore Options" from the main program menu, but there is no "Default Restore Options" choice available from Tools->Options.
And another part of the manual says I can edit default restore options from the Restore Data Wizard, where I should be able to choose between "use default options" and "set options manually", but I can't ever get to a place where I am offered this choice.
I'm stuck. What else should I try at this point?
Thank you.
V11 is an old version for me. Are you sure you are restoring a single partition, not the entire disk. For example, when you select what to restore, you might see the disk with a check box to its right, then below it, the partition, and things like MBR+Track0. Do no select MBR+Track0, only the partition. Otherwise, ATI will restore the entire disk. See photo attached.
Pat,
Yes, I am selecting just the single partition for the restore, and am not selecting MBR+track0. And, except for the resizing and realigning of the partition, the restore is done properly. The other partitions on the disk to which I am restoring are not affected, which is as it should be, and the restored partition seems to be restored properly (I can then boot into windows on the newly restored partition, and everything seems to work exactly right). The only problem that I can see is that the partition I'm restoring into gets its size and alignment changed during the restore, and I can't find any way to prevent the resizing and realigning of the partition.
The odd thing about this is those various sections of the ATI manual (mentioned in my last post above) that indicate that I should be able to control whether the partition is modified in the "restore options" section, but I see no way to get to the "restore options" section. Does the boot disk leave this functionality out for some reason?
Thanks.
Click on the first line of my signature below and look at index item #3-B. Perhaps you can find some help there as it does illustrate how to resize the partitions. The user must know the correct arrangement of the partitions (as illustrated in Windows Disk Management graphical view) and then the user must restore each partition in the same sequence as listed in the Windows Disk Management graphical view.