Trying to do a disk restore using Acronis true image home 2011
My Desktop is a HP running Windows 7 home premium 64 bit. I have one hard drive portioned into a C and D Drive.
I created a backup of my C Drive and "System State" about 7 days ago, and that file is called: GE-Desktop_C_Drive and_System2011-01-13.tib. Then about 3 days later, I was hit by a virus that Norton Internet Security let through and that virus damaged some of my systems files. Norton says they have now wiped the virus off my desktop.
I have a C Drive and a D Drive on my desk top. I have a separate backup of my D Drive, which basically contains the files from the maker of my PC to use for a fresh from the factory restore, which would wipe off all my data files and set the system back to the point it was when it was shipped to me about 1 year ago.
When I bring up my backup file named: GE-Desktop_C_Drive and_System2011-01-13.tib and expand it, it shows the back up file contains BOTH a C and D Drive (see image 1 and 2 and 2a). I do not think a D Drive should be showing up (see image 3). I have a separate back up for my "actual" D drive (see image 4) that I do not want to restore at this point since I dont need to. I just want to recovery my C Drive.
I am not sure what the "System State" back up feature in Acronis is, but that was selected when I did the backup of the C Drive and perhaps the System State backup is what is showing up in the GE-Desktop_C_Drive and_System2011-01-13.tib backup as the D Drive backup.
When I look at the files in the "actual" D Drive backup that Acronis made, I do see some of the files listed within the GE-Desktop_C_Drive and_System2011-01-13.tib D Drive back up showing up in the actual D Drive backup, but there are also other files and folders listed in the "actual" D Drive backup that do not show up in the GE-Desktop_C_Drive and_System2011-01-13.tib D Drive back up. I do not know why there is a D Drive showing up in my C Drive backup. The C Drive folder showing up in this back up folder is correct, it matches what is on my C Drive now.
So I am not sure how to proceed with the recovery from the bootable media rescue disk. What is confusing here is the fact that the GE-Desktop_C_Drive and_System2011-01-13.tib backup also is showing some files in a D Drive. I do not want to over right my actual D Drive, which is the folder that contains my HP Desktop FACTORY RESTORE files, in case I would need those files to do a factory restore. I do have the actual backup of the D drive so if that happens, I guess I can come behind the restore of the GE-Desktop_C_Drive and_System2011-01-13.tib and do a restore of the GE-Desktop_D_Drive-Factory Image.tib.
But I am also concerned that the desktop might not boot up if I do the restore using the GE-Desktop_C_Drive and_System2011-01-13.tib backup which contains this System State folder which I think is showing up as the D Drive. Any ideas on how to proceed?
What does Acronis consider the System State backup to be? What would happen if I deleted the D Drive portion of the GE-Desktop_C_Drive and_System2011-01-13.tib backup folder? Not sure I can even do that though. But that would leave me with just the C Drive. If the backup folder made by Acronis is altered like that, would it still recover the C Drive within the GE-Desktop_C_Drive and_System2011-01-13.tib backup? Lots of unkowns here.
Of course I also am experiencing the know issue with Acronis where using the bootable rescue disk, the Linux operating system is not seeing my hard drives correctly, but I think I can figure that one by using the suggested match up the size of the drives solutions.
Thanks for any advice on how to proceed with doing a restore.
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Thanks Colin B for your comments. I did manage this morning to get my system restored successfully.
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