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properly restoring acronis image

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Hello everyone,

I have gotten the habit of doing a image restore on my computer every 6 months just to clean out all of the excess stuff that has accumulated like viruses. My question with acronis 12 is that when I go to recover a image I have three options that I can restore: MBR, Unnamed partition, and C:. Clearly I should check C: but what other ones should I check? I even attached a file that shows the different selections.

Additionally, I originally, even before I created the first image, did partition my main drive with disk director so I have 2 drives to work with. I keep all my information on the other drive, named M:, which doesn't contain any of the programs and only restore the C: drive.

Thank you very much for your time. Mike

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If the disk layout hasn't changed, as it hasn't in the situation you describe, you wouldn't need to restore MBR or the hidden partition. To roll back to a "clean install" state, only C: is required. There's be no harm in also restoring those, but that's not needed for what you describe.

I often restore just C:, after testing out new software or to roll back to before a Windows problem.
Yesterday I did more than 15 restores of C:, from backups of various dates, as I was trying to determine exactly when a software glitch had begun.

If you were restoring to a replacement drive, such as in case of disk failure, you should restore everything including disk signature. That's why it's important to create full disk backups.