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First restore with 2013 and a bit puzzled

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I've used earlier Acronis before, but this will be my first time restoring with 2013.

The earlier versions seemed really straight forward but on the face of it 2013 is scarring me to death. I'm sure it can't be as difficult as it seems. All I want to do is restore 'C' over 'C', almost like system restore which I would use if I had a W7 system restore point that would reliably get me back to where I want to be.

I first looked at the program's help, got nervous and then read the official PDF and got even more nervous.

I then found GroverH's guides and read the one relating to overwriting 'C' and I think I now know what to do but one thing is still puzzling me in the GroverH 'how to'.

..This one .. http://forum.acronis.com/sites/default/files/mvp/user285/guides/tih2012…

The target drive starts off as 174.7 Gbs then half way through (think it Diagram 10) it looks like the restore is set to changed the partition size to 100 GBs and then Fig.18 Summary shows:-

Deleting a Partition size of 100. Gbs and Recovering Partition 174.7Gbs > 100Gbs .. Which I find very confusing as the instructions are supposed to be for a simple like-for-like 'C' overwrite so where does the different partition size come into it.

I apologise for being dumb for I'm sure I must be, but I've read it until my eyes pop and I feel I just need to be sure of what I'm doing before I can find the confidence to click 'start'

My PC is Asus CM6650 i7 ..3.4Ghzs CPU,
2TB HDD with 3 x partitions .. 1, OEM Recovery, / 2, 'C' W7 64bit OS, / 3, 'D' Data

My Back-ups are on External HDD

Any advice would be really appreciated.

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James,

Can I just check, are you restoring the complete drive or just the 'C' partition?

If it is just the 'C' partition and there is no resizing required, just select the 'C' partition in the source selection box and the 'C:' partition in the location box.

The guide is a guide--not necessarily a match to your own settings. Screen 10 shows a restore of an old smaller size partition over a current larger partition--thus the difference is figures.

One of the nice things about TrueImage is that you can simulate all you own settings via a trial run.

Practice the restore all the way until you get top the summary screen labelled
PROCEED or CANCEL.

This is the decision. If you chooose cancel, the no changes are made.
If you choose Proceed, your restore will proceed with the settings you have just made.

Once the actual restore begins, it is too late to cancel so be careful to choose the correction decision choice.