But, since it's not showing any physical boundaries, no way to tell WHERE it'll restore E: I ASSUME (but may be wrong) if there's already a formatted E: partition on the target restore location, that's where it'd put it. If click on the restore "location" link, whether chose restore MBR or not, it still just says, Restoring to E. Don't quite understand this yet, but maybe will get there. EDIT: Notice when uncheck restore MBR, at bottom of screen, the "Drive Letter" box changed from Auto to E: (selecting E: from BU to restore).
the target location appears to be same (w/o actually doing the restore), clicking on "location" link, to see what's selected. When I do a dry run for one (non booting partition) & select or don't, "restore MBR + track 0" the only diff I see in info it gives about restored location, is if check resore MBR / track 0, it says in summary, "Deleting partition E: (reboot required)".
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Restoring disk signature may be desirable due to the following reasons: Restore the MBR if it is critical to your system boot.When MBR restoration is chosen, there will be the "Restore disk signature" box in the bottom left corner at the next step. You can choose whether to restore a MBR and track 0 by checking the respective box. It appears in this window in a separate line. "If you don't restore the MBR+track0, but only certain partitions, they will be restore in place to the corresponding existing partitions, erasing them, but not the partition that is left out of the backup."įrom the help file, I don't get that restoring MBR + track 0 (or not) has anything to do /w whether it will restore partitions to same location:ĭisk images contain a copy of track 0 along with a MBR (Master Boot Record). If what I describe won't work, besides always doing entire disk, sector by sector BU, are there methods to BU encrypted partitions & restore them to original location (on same source disk the BU was created from)? With encrypted partition as is (drive K: (unallocated) ), if I BU / restore all other partitions - EXCEPT K: - will it restore them to their ORIGINAL positions on the same disk (assuming don't format entire disk)? Would it ALSO leave letter K: unused & proper amt of unallocated space between drive H: & L:, where I could then restore encrypted K: from it's separate BU, to correct position between H:\ & L:\ ? Wonder what options are to BU all other partitions (except encrypted one) by NON sector by sector method, then do separate sector by sector BU of the TrueCrypt encrypted partition? FWIW, the encrypted partition is not the last partition on the disk (though I could move it to where it'd be last). I really don't know how much extra space a sector by sector BU would take on 1TB disk vs data only BU. I might do a sector by sector BU once in a while. TrueCrypt encrypted partitions show as Unallocated partition(s) in explorer, even though DOES contain data.ĪTI will only allow BU of unallocated space /partition if "Sector by Sector" BU method is selected - fine. Question about backing up / restoring a TrueCrypt encrypted partition.