User`s guide

Windows should not "see" both the new and old drive during the first boot after recovery. If you upgrade the old

drive to a larger capacity new one, disconnect the old drive before the first boot otherwise there may be

problems booting Windows.

Switch off the computer, if you need to disconnect the old drive, otherwise just reboot the computer

after removing the rescue media.

Boot the computer to Windows. It may report that new hardware (hard drive) is found and Windows

needs to reboot. After making sure that the system operates normally, restore the original boot

sequence.

9.3 Recovering a data partition or disk

As we already said, data partitions and disks are usually recovered in Windows because this allows

you to avoid such issues as the program not detecting your hard drives, changing disk letters, etc. To

reduce the risk of problems during recovery even more, validate the backup archive to be recovered

and check the destination disk for errors using chkdsk.

Attach the external drive if it contains the backup archive to be used for recovery and make sure that the drive is

powered on. This must be done before starting Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup.

1. Start Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup.

2. Select Recovery → Disk and Partition Recovery in the main menu, then choose the image

backup containing the data partition you want to recover.

3. Select Recover whole disks and partitions at the Recovery method step.

4. As you are going to recover a data partition, there is no need to select the "Recover MBR and

track 0" box at the What to recover step. Select just the data partition you want to recover.

5. The next step allows you to select settings for the partition to be recovered. When recovering the

partition to the original location, you only need to check the settings. If you want to recover the

partition to another location, select the new location and set the partition type you need (or

leave the default setting). When the new location is an existing partition, usually you may leave

its disk letter and size unchanged. When the new location is unallocated space e.g. after installing

a new hard drive you intend to use for your data, specify the size of the new partition and assign

a logical disk letter.

6. Carefully read the Summary. After making sure that you have made the correct settings, click

Proceed, if you do not need to change the default recovery options, otherwise click Options.

7. The Options step allows setting the recovery options, for example, to check the file system after

recovery. For more information about the recovery options see Setting default recovery options.

After setting the recovery options click Proceed.

Recovering the entire data disk backup requires similar steps with few minor differences, for

example, there is no "Check file system after recovery" option. When recovering to the original hard

drive the steps of the Recovery Wizard are straightforward - just make sure that you select the disk

with the same number as the backed up disk, as the destination.

Recovering your data disk backup to a hard drive with a different capacity has some nuances

depending on its capacity and geometry (the number of heads and sectors per track). When

recovering to a smaller capacity hard drive, the partition(s) size will be proportionally reduced. When

recovering to a larger capacity hard drive, there are two cases: 1) if the hard drive has the same

geometry, the backed up disk will be recovered "as is" thus leaving unallocated space; and 2) if the

hard drive has different geometry, the partition(s) size will be proportionally enlarged.