Restoring only one partition of a bootable drive

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If i have my hard drive partitioned to C and D (C for OS and D for data), and i image the drive C and the MBR, will it confuse the OS if i only restore C, will the MBR look for D?

mar 13/07/2010 - 22:37
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Unless you remove the D partition, the information for it remains in the partition table part of the MBR. TI, upon restoring, should only renew the partition table entry for the partition it restores (unless I am mistaken). If the D partition still exists, TI will leave that part of the partition table untouched. Likewise, if there is no D partition on the drive, restoring C will only put this information in the partition table - it won't add partition D if it is not there or is not restored. Restoring the MBR will restore the IPL code - the partition table will be built based on which partitions are restored and which are already present.

mer 14/07/2010 - 00:03
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Gary's correct. There shouldn't be any problems restoring just the C: partition.

mer 14/07/2010 - 00:25
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RAID shouldn't matter as long as TI sees it correctly (as a single drive).

mer 14/07/2010 - 01:02