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Restoring Files And Drives

10.3 Restoring a Drive Backup

Nero BackItUp can be used to restore a drive backup. During this process, the drive backup

content is restored. Programs and operating systems are restored. Problems can occur if

you want to restore an active hard drive or partition, e.g. it's usually not possible to lock the

active hard drive or partition for the restore process. In this case, we recommend carrying

out the restore process with Nero BackItUp ImageTool. Nero BackItUp ImageTool is always

included in the first drive backup disc and can be run from it.

Administrator rights

You must have administrator rights in order to back up and restore hard drives

and partitions.

To restore a hard drive or partition, proceed as follows:

1. Click the Restore menu icon.

 The Restore screen appears.

2. Select a backup.

 The details of the backup are displayed in the view area on the Drive View and File

View tabs.

3. If you want to view the selected files and verify them manually:

1. Click the File View tab.

 The Creating list of files window opens and creates a list of the files in the backup.

You can track the process via the progress bar and the messages.

 After the list has been created, a dialog box will open with an appropriate message.

2. Click the OK button.

 The dialog box closes.

3. Click the Close button.

 The Creating list of files window closes. The files of the selected folder or folders

are displayed on the File View tab.

4. If you want to exclude a file from the backup, clear the appropriate box preceding the file.

Files and folders that do not meet the filter criteria are excluded and shown with

a grayed-out check box. The check box cannot be selected. However, individ-

ual files can be re-added with the file search feature.

4. If you want to search for specific files in order to exclude them from the restore or add them

to the restore, execute a file search.

5. If you have backed up multiple partitions, select the partition that you want to restore.

For technical reasons, only one partition

can be restored in one restore proce-

dure.

6. Make the backup available:

1. If the backup is located on a disc, insert the disc in a drive.

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