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| Capt Nemo wrote...
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>My daughter's dell inspiron laptop has 3 partitions ... see attached .jpg.
>The c drive and 2 invisible partitions. One of the 2 invisible partitions
>has the ghost (norton) image of the default setup to reinstall the original
>factory image (came from Dell).
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>If I just backup the C drive (just in case of virus stuff etc) she should be
>good to go, right. If she ever had to reinstall (all current files), she
>would just use acronis to redo the C drive.
>Would I ever want to do a complete backup of all 3 partitions to save in a
>folder on a seperate drive?
The hidden FAT16 partition has size 62M, it has Dell's diagnostic tool.
The hidden FAT32 partition has size 4GB, as you said, has the ghost image
of the C drive.
It would be good to backup these two partition (in the form of
ghost images) onto a DVD, just once and only once, to play safe.
The remaining issue is how to backup the 52GB NTFS partition.
You have two choices, (1) use Acronis Partition Expert (or similar
program) to split the 52GB partition into two and use the second
one to store the Acronis image everytime you back up the C drive.
(2) use an external USB drive to store the backup image instead.
BTW, I have a Dell Inspiron, which I can backup image from Acronis TI8,
but have had problem to restore the image. I belived that my problem
was due to the Acronis Linux boot loader (which is called before you
can run Acronis TI for restore) being incompatible with my Dell Inspiron
hardware.
So, try the restore to see if it works for you.
If you have problem doing restore from Acronis TI, I have just worked
out an alternative way to get Acronis TI restore wirking on my
Dell Inspiron). My solution is use PartPE with TI plugin, which bypass
the Acronis Linux boot loader.
Good luck.
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