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Acronis 2015 Recovery Wizard unclear

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Hi,
I've spent hours trying to restore my .tib backup file located on a 2nd internal drive [I:] to my original hard drive [C:] which just now has Windows 8.1 installed because of the Windows 10 update failure [blinking desktop].

Recovery Wizard
Select the items to recover:
Disk 1
NTFS [unlabeled] C:
MBR and Track 0
NTFS [System Reserved]

Disk 2
NTFS [1 GB Backup] D:
MBR and Track 0

None of the installation help areas I've seen show all these options. Which do I chose? Please help.

Thanks,
Joe MCSE

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It looks like you have done an EntirePC backup which contains both the system disk and the other internal disk??
When you backup to another internal disk, don't do an EntirePC backup. Do a whole disk backup of the system disk and use the other disk as the destination. Or backup the entire PC (2 disks) to a 3rd USB disk.

In your case, just restore the Disk 1 to your system disk. Use the check box at the disk level (this will select all items underneath), then select the disk as the destination.

Make sure you do this operation from the Acronis recovery medium, not from Windows.

Hi Pat,

I only backed up my one hard drive, not the whole pc. Both of my drives are 1TB each.

Recovery Wizard shows:
Disk 1 (C:) shows 614 GB used. It now has only a new windows 8.1 installed.

Disk 2 (D:) shows 387 GB used. The backup .tib file is only 204 GB, which is near other prior backups.

I cannot understand the concept to check to install disk 1 (C:) shown in Acronis, which is my current OS and ignore disk 2 (D:) which has my backup. Please advise.

Thanks,
Joe

Recovery Wizard
Select the items to recover:
Disk 1
NTFS [unlabeled] C:
MBR and Track 0
NTFS [System Reserved]

Disk 2
NTFS [1 GB Backup] D:
MBR and Track 0

When you write this, I understand that you have:
- booted the computer on the recovery medium,
- started ATI running from that medium
- chose "recover disks and partitions"
- navigated to the tib file on the non-system disk
- initiated the recovery process
- and now, as the first step, ATI is asking what to recover from that backup file...

Correct?