Recovering using TI 10, will this delete existing partitions

[JohnWB]

I an just going to make my first backup using TI 10. I was going to do the wizard and just choose the c drive at first, then do backups for the d & e drives seperatly.
When I use the use the backup for one of the partitions, will it delete everything on my HD including the existing partitons or will it jsut delete the data in that partiton then fill that partition with the recovered data.
Is there anything I have to do to make sure that happens when doing the backups

[Ralphie]

Backup in Acronis speak makes a compressed Image of what you're backing up and does not erase anything on the destination drive. It puts the Image file on the destination drive. The Image file will be added to whatever is already on the destination drive.
However Cloning will erase everything on the destination drive.

[Xpilot]

-{ Quote: "Backup in Acronis speak makes a compressed Image of what you're backing up and does not erase anything on the destination drive. It puts the Image file on the destination drive. The Image file will be added to whatever is already on the destination drive.
However Cloning will erase everything on the destination drive." }-

Just to clarify. When you use an image to restore a partition it will first erase everything in that partition and will put the imaged data in its place to restore it to just as it was when the image was made. Exactly the same will apply with full disk images.

Xpilot

[shieber]

You do have the option of restoring without deleting the exsiting partition, but you will have to have room for both partitions on the destiantion drive and if it's a system partition, well, you need to have only one of those per OS -- anyway, you can't have two partitions claiming to be the primary boot and system partition.

[JohnWB]

Thanks for the replies, so using the backup of a partiton then deletes everything was in that partition and replaces it with the data from the backup image.
Is there a way to to overwrite the data in that partition similar to when you copy a file into a folder so that only the files which are the same as in the backup get replaced and all the rest of the files are untouched

[Xpilot]

No it is not.
When an image is restored to its original location it restores everthing to the same state as when the image was made.
I suppose one could restore a partition to a different location and then within explorer copy the files back to the original location. Then one could overwrite in the way you set out.

Xpilot