Difference in the partition map when recovering from True Image installed software or the Acronis recovery disk

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I have received a new Win 7 notebook. In this notebook (I don't know why, but it seems a current practice in the industry nowadays) they are including a System Reserved Partition with the letter D assigned to that partition. As far as I have read around the web, there is no way to remove this System reserved partition so I am stuck with it. But having a useless partition using the letter D, which is a drive designation to which I am used for a long time regarding the way I handle my info is really painful, so I changed the drive letter of the System Reserved Partition to H.

So my current drive structure is as follows

Recovery - Pri - 13.85gb

C: (windows) - Pri - 117.2gb

D: (D) - Log - 166gb

E: (Terra) - Log - 48.83gb

F: (Fotos) - Log - 87.89gb

G: Static) - Log - 31.9 gb

H: (System reserved) - Pri, Act - 100mb

I did an image backup of partitions C + H +MBR and found that there is a big difference when I try to recover with the True Image installed in the notebook or booting with an Acronis Recovery Disk. Here is the result.

In both cases, after selecting the image to restore, the recovery requests for each partition previously imaged the info of which partition should that partitionimage be recovered to, and it shows the available disk partition map.

When I use the installed True Image software, the partition structure I am offered is identical to the one upon which I did the backup. When I use the Acronis Recovery Disk the partition map offered is significantly different and as follows :

Recovery - 13.85gb - THIS PARTITION IS GRAYED OUT AND NOT AVAILABLE FOR SELECTION (This is my comment)

C: (System reserved) - 100 mb - THIS PARTITION IS GRAYED OUT AND NOT AVAILABLE FOR SELECTION (This is my comment)

D: (Windows) - Pri - 117.2 gb

E : (D) - Log - 166gb

F : (Terra) - Log - 48.83gb

G : (Fotos) - Log - 87.89gb

H : (Static) - THIS PARTITION IS GRAYED OUT AND NOT AVAILABLE FOR SELECTION (This is my comment)

To rule out mistakes and as my Acronis recovery Disk had been built from my own installed software, I did the same process with a Recovery disk built from Acronis web supplied mediabuilder, and the result was identical.

Does anyone understand why and what does this mean ? Is there a problem with the products, with my disks ? Am I doing something wrong ?

Thanks

Mar, 08/24/2010 - 23:58
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The drive letters displayed on the Linux Rescue/Recovery CD may be different than the drive letters assigned by Windows. This difference is not an error but simply two different programs using their own methods of assigning numbers. What is important to you is the names assigned to the drives and knowing the drive information such as how much space is used and what their assigned capacity.

Open Windows Disk Management and use the graphical view to look at the physical arrangement of your partitions on the system disk. Observe or write down which partitions are 1-2-3-4. It is highly probable that TrueImage will display the same sequence 1-2-3-4 (ignore drive letters assigned by TrueImage). Drive letters have no meaning and no importance when booted from the Rescue CD. This is normal. If you look in your backup in Recovery mode and a partition is missing, it is usually because it was not selected in the backup.

The type of backup which offers the most options for recovery is a backup which includes all partitions on the system disk. Win-7 will usually have either 3 or 4 partitions so all of these should be included in some of your backups. Should disaster strike and you need to duplicate your old drive onto a new drive, you will want to have a backup which includes all partitions. Yes, there are alternate methods but having all the partitions inside one backup provides the most restore options.

This is a one sample of what you can expect in the Recovery console and the drive letters (ignore) you see are not the same as those displayed in Windows. You can compare the partition sequence shown in this picture with what is shown to you via your Windows Disk Management graphical view. They may or may not be the same because I do not know how many partitions you have on your system disk. Some of the drive letters you mention must relate to drives other than what is inside your notebook.
http://forum.acronis.com/sites/default/files/resize/forum/2010/08/13332…

The below is a sample of what you might expect to see when booted from the TI2011 Rescue/Recovery CD when a Windows 7 disk option backup is being recovered.

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Its not 100% clear from the original post, but what I *think* concerned him was the fact that three of his partitions were greyed out and not selectable, not so much that the drive letters had changed. He didn't actually say that he already knew about the drive letter changing being normal when using the boot disk, so perhaps that confused him as well.

Mer, 08/25/2010 - 18:33