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Martin C
Sorry, this is off topic, but there have been so many postings here saying
to use Acronis for backups and imaging that I thought it would be good to
ask the question here.
I have been thinking of buying the latest version, but before that, I looked
through the help files of Acronis True Image Home Version 9.0 that a friend
of mine has.
One thing stood out to me. In the area for restoring to a 'non empty
destination hard drive', there is the following help text:
"If there are any partitions on the new disk, they must be deleted
first.Choose between:
.. Yes, I want to delete all the partitions on the destination hard disk
drive before restoring - all existing partitions will be deleted and all
their data will be lost.
.. No, I do not want to delete partitions - no existing partition will be
deleted, discontinuing the restoring operation. You will only be able to
cancel this operation and return to select another disk.
To continue, select the first choice and click Next."
As I have a disc with 4 partitions (OS, Data, Apps, Games), if I use Acronis
to back up the C partition (operating system partition only), and later try
to restore the C partition, will I have to delete all the other partitions
to do this? That seems mad! My friend is not sure as he has never had to
perform a restore operation anyhow.
Surely to restore a partition will just overwrite the partition to be
replaced, not the entire disc.
Previously I have used Ghost 2003, but now that I am backing up to an
external HDD via USB2, it cannot handle it. Ghost just overwrote the C
partition only.
Please advise.
TIA
Martin
to use Acronis for backups and imaging that I thought it would be good to
ask the question here.
I have been thinking of buying the latest version, but before that, I looked
through the help files of Acronis True Image Home Version 9.0 that a friend
of mine has.
One thing stood out to me. In the area for restoring to a 'non empty
destination hard drive', there is the following help text:
"If there are any partitions on the new disk, they must be deleted
first.Choose between:
.. Yes, I want to delete all the partitions on the destination hard disk
drive before restoring - all existing partitions will be deleted and all
their data will be lost.
.. No, I do not want to delete partitions - no existing partition will be
deleted, discontinuing the restoring operation. You will only be able to
cancel this operation and return to select another disk.
To continue, select the first choice and click Next."
As I have a disc with 4 partitions (OS, Data, Apps, Games), if I use Acronis
to back up the C partition (operating system partition only), and later try
to restore the C partition, will I have to delete all the other partitions
to do this? That seems mad! My friend is not sure as he has never had to
perform a restore operation anyhow.
Surely to restore a partition will just overwrite the partition to be
replaced, not the entire disc.
Previously I have used Ghost 2003, but now that I am backing up to an
external HDD via USB2, it cannot handle it. Ghost just overwrote the C
partition only.
Please advise.
TIA
Martin