Appears to be a Bug in restoring the Primary Boot partition after it has been resized.
Hi All and Support,
Normally when backing up and restoring there is no problem.
I had a Small Primary Boot partition that I had imaged. But because I was getting Low Space warnings for that partition, I imaged the Hard Drive, individual partitions.
Then I booted onto a different Hard Drive and its partition.
Use Disk Director to resize the partitions. Worked just fine.
Then I wanted to test as well to make sure that everything was good, I restarted the computer and had lost all the partitions to that Hard Drive.
I corrected the problem, but when I used Acronis True Image to restore the Primary Boot partition, it cut in half the size of the partition from 2 GB back to the original size.
Question is why doesn't ATI 2019 restore to the New Size? And leave the new size alone?
Hi @ Steve Smith ,
The size of the partition was increased by 1GB, before I used Acronis True Image.
When I had restored just that partition, it decrease the size of the New partition.
When you are restoring a Whole Disk to the same size disk, the size of the individual partitions, can't be changed, so everything gets restored.
I had use Acronis Disk Director to resize that Boot Partition, so it was set.
How do you mean to Set the size? I was restoring to the same Hard Drive with an increase size of the Boot partition.
Morton, see the ATI 2019 User Guide: Partition properties (in the Recovery section of the guide).
When you recover partitions to a basic disk, you can change properties of these partitions. To open the Partition Properties window, click Properties next to the selected target partition.
You can change the following partition properties:
- Letter
- Label
- Type
You can make the partition primary, primary active, or logical.
- Size
You can resize the partition by dragging the right-side border with your mouse, on the horizontal bar on the screen. To assign the partition a specific size, enter the appropriate number into the Partition size field. You can also select the position of unallocated space—before or after the partition.
Hi @ Steve Smith ,
What you had pointed to, I saw yesterday and today. Both instances, the ability to change the partition size is grayed out.
Morton, did a quick test with one of my own small partitions and found I got no options to resize partitions when attempting recovery from the Windows ATI application, but no issue with resizing if booting from the offline rescue media and application.
Hi @ Steve Smith ,
Thanks for the research. However, I lost no information but time, the other day. Right now I am back up and running and already created two new Images, so I should not have to restore the Primary Boot Partition.
Tuesday was Patch Tuesday from Microsoft and will be imaging a lot of my partitions, later today.