Restoring a partition ONLY, not the entire disk...
hello all,
i have a 1tb ssd, which includes two os partitions (win 10; 7), and a data partition. i backed up each of the os partitions separately, so that i can restore either one separately if needed. well, now it is needed. however, when i try to click recovery, the program looks as if it will erase the entire disk to put this partition on it. i ONLY want to recover the PARTITION, not the entire disk. how can restore the one partition, without destroying the other partition? thanks in advance for any help provided. i really appreciate it.
thanks for the response. there is a "recover files" prompt, but that is a bit ambiguous in my opinion. because it doesn't make me feel like it can do an entire partition without there being some problem with it. why wouldn't they just have a dedicated button to restoring partitions? or link it with the restore disk option, but have a sub-menu after that where you choose entire disk or a single partition?
i am, however, trying it as we speak, and it has been going for hours. where if i choose to restore an entire disk, it is done in twenty minutes. so i am skeptical until i see the finished product working. We will see how it goes in about 30 minutes.
update: well that didn't work. once it finished, i opened that os, which was win 7 ult., and it seemed fast as hell. but then i started to get blue screens of death. i knew this would happen. seems i am going to have to reload the entire os by hand. this truly sucks!! acronis has gotten worse with time. i use to be able to depend on acronis years ago, without fail. but the newer versions just aren't as good, and they aren't as intuitive as well.
This link may be of some help.
http://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/ATI2015/index.html#7…
This is a pdf file on restoring C only from a disk image backup If you are not restoring C, this can be guide for restoring any single parttion.
http://forum.acronis.com/sites/default/files/mvp/user285/guides/tih2012…
This is a pdf file on restoring C only from a disk image backup If you are not restoring C, this can be guide for restoring any single parttion.
http://forum.acronis.com/sites/default/files/mvp/user285/guides/tih2012…
thanks, but this is 2012 version. very different from 2015 version.
VERY FRUSTRATED NOW!
the problem i have run into now, is that once you pick all of the correct backups that you want to restore, right before it starts the restore, it says that all things on the disk will be erased. ERASED! why would it erase the entire drive, instead of just the partition you want to restore????? this is a 1tb drive, with another os on a different partition, and another partition as well. what is the use of making separate partitions if acronis can't work within them??????? i really don't know what the heck acronis was thinking with this! if you have backed up two partitions on one drive, you have NO chance to recover them both. unless you do it manually, which (see above comment) good luck with that. it almost always causes errors. and i still have not heard from acronis. in today's world of giant drives and multiple partitions, it only makes sense that people need to be able to work with single partitions if need be. why would they erase the entire drive?????????????????????????????????????????????????????
I made a couple of boo-boo's a while ago when trying to recover JUST a partition... it installed onto D drive, so I tried again with absolute path ticked. It installed on C drive but in a directory called C. LOL!
So I think I might read up a bit more before I make the jump from entire PC backups to file & folder backups.
Holy crap...
https://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/ATI2015/index.html#…
actually, i have to eat some crow here. upon further investigation, i found a little grayed out ticker up on the top of the acronis window which says, "recover specific partitions". it only pops up once you have clicked recover disks. it is also at the very top, and once you click recover disks, your eye's are normally only on the main section, so i didn't see it this entire time. it is also grayed out until you click it. but, still it is there. so my apologies to acronis. although i do think this option should be made more clear to the users.