3.3
Selecting a Destination Partition
As it has been said above, you can restore a partition image, stored in an
archive file, to a new hard disk. In the same way you can restore contents of
a stored partition to another partition. For example, you could have stored
logical drive D: data in an archive file. You would like this data to be restored
to the logical drive E: on a new hard disk. Acronis TrueImage software allows
to do this as well. In the
Restored Partition Location
window click a partition,
to which
you
’
d like to restore the data to. This partition will become
underlined red.
Selecting a destination partition
Acronis TrueImage software must obtain an
exclusive access
to
a partition to
restore an image from an archive file to. It means no other software must
work with this partition during the restoration. Therefore it
’
s recommended
to close all applications for the restoration period. However, it
’
s not enough
for some cases, in particular if you restore a partition the operating system
was booted from.
We
’
ll discuss this situation later. It may appear at system partition restoration (the one
PC is currently booted from).
So, having selected the destination to restore a partition from an archive file,
click
Next
to continue.
You can change the
type
of a partition from an archive file, while restoring it.
Read more about partition types in the Appendix A. We also note that an operating
system is usually installed to a primary partition, and logical drives of an extended
partition are used for storing data files.
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