Restore Image to Delete C: Drive

[Wizardry]

I am testing TI v9. My computer has multiple partitions. As a test I backed up the C: Partition with TI and Ghost 9. I have been using Ghost but have been interested in using TI. Ghost requires that you delete the partition you are restoring before attempting to restore it. After creating images of my C: Drive with both Ghost and TI I deleted the C: partition. I then booted to the TI restore CD. When I tried to restore the TI image to the C: Drive TI wanted to make the restored image "T" drive (instead of C: Drive) - the last partition on my hard drive. I thought I read in the manual I could select what drive letter to restore but couldn't figure it out. Instead of corrupting anything I decided to reboot and use Ghost and restore the C: partition. Ghost worked fine. All in all my question is: "If I use TI and I need to restore my C: drive can it be done if I delete the C: Drive or do I have to make sure I don't delete C: Drive before restoring it using TI? I guess working with Ghost clouds my thinking.

Any help would be appreciated.

Wiz

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-{ Quote: "I am testing TI v9. My computer has multiple partitions. As a test I backed up the C: Partition with TI and Ghost 9. I have been using Ghost but have been interested in using TI. Ghost requires that you delete the partition you are restoring before attempting to restore it. After creating images of my C: Drive with both Ghost and TI I deleted the C: partition. I then booted to the TI restore CD. When I tried to restore the TI image to the C: Drive TI wanted to make the restored image "T" drive (instead of C: Drive) - the last partition on my hard drive. I thought I read in the manual I could select what drive letter to restore but couldn't figure it out. Instead of corrupting anything I decided to reboot and use Ghost and restore the C: partition. Ghost worked fine. All in all my question is: "If I use TI and I need to restore my C: drive can it be done if I delete the C: Drive or do I have to make sure I don't delete C: Drive before restoring it using TI? I guess working with Ghost clouds my thinking.

Any help would be appreciated.

Wiz" }-

You do not have to delete C and based on my experience this is what happened when I ended up with C deleted.

I don't remember all the details of how my situation unfolded but this is what I remember. Take it with a grain of salt and hopefully somebody will either confirm or dispute this.

Twice I ended up with my partitions in a state where it didn't want to assign the right letter. Once was because I cancelled out of a restore because I picked the wrong backup file (should have just let it finish and redone it) and the second time was a corrupted restore (hardware problem).

In both cases my old C partition was left as unallocated space. TI does delete the old partition it just isn't obvious.

The first time I fired up my XP install disk and ran it up to the partition and format part of the install and fixed up the disk. Then I did the TI restore.

The second time I just told it to restore to the unallocated space and make it the active partition. I think the drive letter was wrong during the restore but when it booted up in XP the letter was correctly set to C in Windows. My apologies for not recalling with certaintly but this is what I think happened.