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Thank you Acronis - a successful recovery

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Most posting on the forum are questions or complaints.  This one is a report of success.

Yesterday had a problem on my primary PC.  The problem seemed to effect only my email client but hours of debugging pointed to a problem in Windows rather than in the email client or its data.  I decided recover my C drive from a week old backup. 

Since the PC was mostly still useful I decided I should take a non-Acronis backup just in case the recovery failed and left me with boat anchor instead of a PC.  I used a well respected (free) competitive product and spent a very frustrating half an hour trying to make sense of the backup process.  I finally got my backup and turned to the Acronis recovery.

I booted from a USB built using the MVP Custom ATI WinPE Builder, picked options to recover my drive.  It went faster than I expected and I had my system back in less than an hour.  (And the email client worked!)

My only question has nothing to do the the recovery process itself - just what should be recovered.  When recovering a bootable drive with multiple partitions - such as C drive and "System Reserved" partition - is there any reason to recover both partitions.  I recovered both but I suspect that was not needed.

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In this situation you always recover the entire drive with all its partitions. The System Reserved partition is where the boot information is stored. See https://www.howtogeek.com/192772/what-is-the-system-reserved-partition-… for a detailed explanation. If you had not restored it your system would not boot.

Patrick, always good to read a positive story but fully understand the need for belt & braces by taking a separate backup with another product.

Tom's advice is correct for any situation where you need to recover an entire dirve with all partitions but I have successfully restored just my Windows OS partition in similar circumstances. The decision depends on what may have gone wrong to prompt the recovery. 

Thanks Tom and Steve.  In all cases (including this one) where I needed to do a recovery I've never had an unbootable system - just problematic corruptions in Windows.  Maybe next time - and I'm sure there will be a "next time" - I will try restoring just the C drive partition.  If that doesn't work I can always redo the restore specifying all partitions.  I was in a bit of a hurry or I would have tried this time.

Patrick, thank you! I am really glad to hear a success story here!