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Note that no real changes or data destruction will be performed at this time! For now, the program will just

map out the procedure. All changes will be implemented only when you click Proceed in the wizard's Summary

window.

11.1.6 Changing the recovered partition type

When recovering a partition, you can change its type, though it is not required in most cases.

To illustrate why you might need to do this, let's imagine that both the operating system and data

were stored on the same primary partition on a damaged disk.

If you are recovering a system partition to the new (or the same) disk and want to load the operating

system from it, you will select Active.

Acronis True Image Home automatically corrects boot information during recovery of the system

partition to make it bootable, even if it was not recovered to the original partition (or disk).

If you recover a system partition to another hard disk with its own partitions and OS, most likely you

will need only the data. In this case, you can recover the partition as Logical to access the data only.

By default, the original partition type is selected.

Selecting Active for a partition without an installed operating system could prevent your computer from

booting.

11.1.7 Changing the recovered partition size and location

You can resize and relocate a partition by dragging it or its borders with a mouse on the horizontal

bar on the screen or by entering corresponding values into the appropriate fields.

Using this feature, you can redistribute the disk space among partitions being recovered. In this case,

you will have to recover the partition to be reduced first.