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A little bit of background - I had a 160GB drive that was partitioned as a C and D drive. OS only on C, user data on D. The drive started failing, RMA'd it to manufacturer and they sent back a 320GB drive. Partitioned the same, used it for about 3 months, drive started failing. RMA'd it to manufacturer they sent back a 750GB drive.

My other 3 drives are all 400-500GB drives. The 750GB drive is their RE3 Enterprise level drive (now I am giving away the manufacturer!) and is the 'best', most reliable, and fastest drive in my system. My dilemma is that it's way too large for how it's purposed (OS and user data) which needs only about 60GB. But, I want to use it as my primary drive given its speed and reliability.

I know drives are cheap and I could just go buy a new smaller drive but I am trying to avoid that (recession and everything)!

So, I am thinking of keeping the 750GB drive and partitioning it as C, D, Z holding OS, user data, and random rarely used programs that I want to keep around respectively. I want to back up C and D nightly and don't want to backup Z.

I know I can back up just C and D and not Z. My question is, can I restore using the Disk and Partition option (as opposed to the select files option) just C and D off of the backup and leave Z alone. My understanding is that the Disk and Partition restore wipes out ALL the partitions on the drive, thereby wiping out Z. I am running the latest build of TI Home 2010.

So, in summary, I'd like to nightly back up C and D (but not Z) and be able to restore C and D using the Disk and Partition option while not touching Z. Is that possible?

Thanks!!!!

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You can restore individual partitions by selecting only the partition(s) in the backup image that you want to restore. The traget partition will be erase but not the others. Also, note the discussion in the User Guide concerning hidden partitions.