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Selecting Backup Partitions

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I am using Acronis Tue Image Home 2011, Build 6942, on my Dell PC running Windows 7 Professional. I always select to do a full backup. When I do this, there are three partitions listed to be backed up. They are 1)Unnamed partition: 0.1 GB FAT 16, 2)Recovery partition xx GB NTFS, and 3)OS (c:) xx GB NTFS. Only the 2nd and 3rd are checked as a default. I have been also checking the first (Unnamed partition) as well. What is in this small Unnamed partition? Should I be selecting it for backup? I have never had to do a restore, so I don't know if selecting this Unnamed partition for backup is good or bad. Please tell me the pros & cons of including this Unnamed partition in the full backup. Your thoughts on this will be greatly appreciated.

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For the best type of backup, you should include all partitions. If you click on the option "Switch to Disk mode", and click your disk, that will display all the partitions from your disk to be included. The type of backup I am referencing is the one shown at the bottom of the illustration below.

Should you need to create a replacement disk, the best type backup to have for the least problems is to have a backup which includes all your partitions including the non-lettered ones. If you need to create a replacement disk, the non-lettered partition will also need to be restored.

GroverH:
Thanks for your reply. While I don't know what is contained in the 0.1 GB Unnamed partition, I will continue to either check it, or do as you suggested, and switch to Disk Mode. I have been lucky so far and have not had a need to do a restore on my Windows 7 machine.

I am running Acronis Home 2009 on my XP machine. The restore saved my butt three times. Once when the c: drive failed, and twice when I had software problems I could not resolve

Thanks again for your interest and resolution to my problem.

Version 2009 is different than my illustration. This example shows 2010 but the same procedure would apply.