Restore Image to D Drive

[buzzmag]

Running Acronis TI11 - 8053. I have an image of my C drive on an external hard drive. Is there anyway to restore the image to a partition (D) of my primary drive (C)?

[NumLock]

Yes technically you can do this; restore C to a D drive so you would get 2 partitions with almost identical files.

But you wont be able to boot into the C drive restored to D because you would need to configure a boot loader for that and Acronis does not have that feature.

[Brian K]

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buzzmag,

Yes, it's easy to do, but not the first time. You need to delete the D: partition BEFORE you create an image of the C: drive. Then you restore the image to the unallocated space and make sure the first OS is hidden before booting to the new OS on the first occasion. You need a boot manager to control which OS is active and which is hidden as they will both be C: drive. They can share a common data partition if you like. A new D: drive.

You can even use pqboot32.exe from Partition Magic as a simple boot manager.

Questions?

PS. I just remembered you will have to use something like EditBini to edit boot.ini in the new OS before its first boot.

[buzzmag]

-{ Quote: "buzzmag,

Yes, it's easy to do, but not the first time. You need to delete the D: partition BEFORE you create an image of the C: drive. Then you restore the image to the unallocated space and make sure the first OS is hidden before booting to the new OS on the first occasion. You need a boot manager to control which OS is active and which is hidden as they will both be C: drive. They can share a common data partition if you like. A new D: drive.

You can even use pqboot32.exe from Partition Magic as a simple boot manager.

Questions?

PS. I just remembered you will have to use something like EditBini to edit boot.ini in the new OS before its first boot." }-


Thanks Brian.

[Brian K]

buzzmag,

You could use this as a reference. You don't need to read all the pages.

http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/index.htm