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I do not find "Format" the c drive & does recover will automatically do that before install from back up?

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I have a back up on an external HD [Image] using my Acronis True Image Home 2012.

Now when I boot using the Acronis recovery disc on my Dell computer I get to
1.Recover
2.Windows

I choose the option to Recover. I could find my External HD that has my back up.

Now when I choose to back up the whole image.... Would that automatically format my C drive, prior to put my image back up from the external HD. I do not get an option to format my internal HD [C drive in my case]

Thank you for your answer.

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You don't need to reformat the disk/partition when you restore the entire disk/partition.

Arunachalam:

You do not need to format a disk or partition before restoring your image to it. You can restore to a completely blank hard disk if you wish. If you restore to a disk that already contains information, then that information will be replaced with the contents of your backup. In either case, formatting is not required before restoring an image.

Thank you Pat & Mark.
That is great to learn.
I have restored and works perfectly.