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Restoring a system partition
System partition restoration is different. There are two possible situations:
•
System shows off failure signs, but still boots; you also succeed to run
Acronis TrueImage Deluxe directly from the Windows
Start
menu;
•
System doesn
’
t boot, or it
’
s impossible to run applications, including
Acronis TrueImage Deluxe, under it after booting.
If you succeeded to boot Windows and run Acronis TrueImage Deluxe, you
should do the following:
1. Set the switch to
Restore a partition or the whole hard disk drive or deploy a
new PC
in the
Action Selection
window;
2. Find an archive file on a hard disk or removable media;
3. Select a partition (the system one) to be restored from this archive file;
4. Select a partition,
to which
you want to restore the previously selected
partition, from the list of hard disks connected to the PC;
5. Having clicked
Next
, you receive a message such as shown on the figure
above (Figure 3.17).
You reboot your PC, clicking
Reboot
. As a result Acronis TrueImage
Deluxe will run
before
Windows, restore the system partition and
terminate, allowing Windows OS to boot.
If the operating system doesn
’
t boot or applications (particularly Acronis
TrueImage Deluxe) do not run, you should have a
bootable diskette or CD
for
this situation. Acronis TrueImage Deluxe lets you create it by clicking
Acronis -> TrueImage -> Bootable Rescue Media Builder. Such a diskette
(CD) will contain everything necessary to run Acronis TrueImage Deluxe and
access hard disks and other drives, connected to your PC. Having run Acronis
TrueImage Deluxe, you should act the same as described above to restore
the system partition. Having restored the partition, you should remove the
diskette from the drive and reboot your PC.
3.3 Peculiarities of restoration from removable media
Restoring a partition (disk) from removable media shouldn
’
t be of any
additional difficulties than restoring it from a hard disk. But you should
remember that it (as well as back-up copying to removable media) will take
much longer time.
Moreover, you will usually need several CD-R, CD-RW disks to create a back-
up copy of a partition and, especially, the whole disk on removable media,
that you
’
ll have to insert into drive in turns.