My situation is I have made a copy of my entire C: drive with Windows XP professional, now I want to restore it from my external WD 3TB drive to my laptop’s C drive. That is, make it what it was back when I had only 2 partitions and windows professional installed
I just don’t quite understand the process/terminology
I told the BIOS to boot from the version of Acronis WD True Edition I have put on a CD.
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I choose recovery, browse from backup, choose my D:\3TB drive, choose the backup file which is backup9812.tib
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Under disc backup I right click the backup9812 file, choose recover, chose recover whole discs and partitions
click next\ -
Now it shows me Disk 2, which I’m guessing is my D:\ drive, there are three partitions listed under it
1. NTFS (OS)C,/ primary, act/ 298.1GB/NTFS
2. MBR and Track 0/ MBR and track 0
3. Fat16 (Unlabeled)/ Pri/39.19MB/9.407MB/FS Fat 16 Parition 0xDE (Dell server utilities)
I’m not quite sure what the third partition is for or if I even need it, but just in case I made the backup with both of those partitions.
Under what to recover I choose only the first partition (so I can get to the next step)
I’m at a screen called Specify recovery settings of Partition C. Again, my goal is to have only those two partitions I had made the backup of copied to the laptop’s hard drive from my WD hard drive.\
Under Partition Location- new location it lists
Disk 1
1. NTFS (My Book) (D:)/Pri/2.729TB/1.671TB/NTFS
Disk 2
1.Fat 16 (unlabeled)/Pri, Act/1.999GB/1.988GB/FS Fat 15 partition:
- Uallocated/296.1GB/Unallocated
For disc 2 is it talking about my physical C:/drive. this is where I am confused, or it talking about the backup on my D: drive? I’d think what I’d need to do, to avoid any confusion is if this is my physical C Drive to wipe repartition it, before moving the two other partitions to it. I’m pretty confused
