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Restore question - Acronis 8
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| macglade 2005-10-06, 5:53 pm |
| A scenario:
I partition a drive into three "virtual" drives D, E & F. I image those
3 drives to an external drive.
The source drive fails. I install a new drive. I prefer to go with a
single partition for the new drive but I assume I must partition the new
drive into three in order to restore the image(s). Correct?
Can I restore and then partition the drive(s) back to 1 drive after
restoration? Does Acronis 8 let you do that?
Troubleshooting remotely for a friend--never had a drive failure myself
but she's on her third for a Dell Inspiron.
Thanks in advance
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| You don't need to partition the new disk before restoring the original
partitions with True Image.
I assume that the boot partition is drive C, and is not one of the
partitions to be restored. If the partitions to be restored are not
active programs, but only data, then you can restore all as files and
directories with TI's "virtual drive" feature. Just right-click on
the image file and select Plug.
You could also restore all three images normally, then repartition
with Partition Magic or Acronis Disk Director.
Your choice.
Dale
On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 12:50:14 GMT, macglade <macglade@yahoo.com> wrote:
>A scenario:
>
>I partition a drive into three "virtual" drives D, E & F. I image those
>3 drives to an external drive.
>
>The source drive fails. I install a new drive. I prefer to go with a
>single partition for the new drive but I assume I must partition the new
>drive into three in order to restore the image(s). Correct?
>
>Can I restore and then partition the drive(s) back to 1 drive after
>restoration? Does Acronis 8 let you do that?
>
>Troubleshooting remotely for a friend--never had a drive failure myself
>but she's on her third for a Dell Inspiron.
>
>Thanks in advance
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