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Disk letters may differ when booting from the rescue media. The names will help you find the drive
containing your backups, as well as the target (new) drive.
Information on partition sizes, drive capacities, their manufacturers, and model numbers can also
help to correctly identify the drives.
It is highly recommended to install the new hard drive to the same position in the computer and to
use the same cable and connector that was used for the original drive. This is not always possible,
e.g. the old drive may be an IDE and the new drive may be a SATA. In any case, install the new drive
to where it will be used.
4.5.1 Recovering a disk without a hidden partition
At first let's consider recovery of a system disk containing two partitions (none of them hidden). In
addition, we assume that the system disk does not contain a recovery partition which may not be
hidden. If the disk contains, for example, three partitions, the procedure will be similar. We will
describe recovery using the rescue media. This usually gives the best recovery results.
Attach the external drive if it contains the backup to be used for recovery and make sure that the drive is
powered on. This must be done before booting from Acronis rescue media.
1. Arrange the boot order in BIOS so as to make your rescue media device (CD, DVD or USB stick)
the first boot device. See Arranging boot order in BIOS (p. 97).
2. Boot from the rescue media and select Acronis True Image Home 2011 (Full version).
3. Select Recovery → Disk and Partition Recovery in the main menu. Choose the image backup of
your system disk that you want to use for recovery.
If the disks have different disk letters in Windows and the recovery environment, the program
will display the following error message: "Acronis True Image Home 2011 cannot detect volume
N of "Name" archive". Here "Name" is the name of the required image backup. The volume
number (N) may be different depending on the number of backup versions in the backup. Click
Browse and show the path to the backup.
4. Select Recover whole disks and partitions at the Recovery method step.
5. At the What to recover step, select the boxes which indicate the partitions to be recovered. Do
not select the MBR and Track 0 box, as this will result in selecting the entire disk for recovery.
Recovering the entire disk does not allow you to resize partitions manually. In such an event, the
new disk space will be proportionally distributed between the recovered partitions. If necessary,
you can recover the MBR later. Select the partitions and click Next.
Selecting partitions leads to appearance of the relevant steps "Settings of partition ...".
Please note that these steps are in ascending partition drive letter order and that this order
cannot be changed. The order may differ from the physical order of the partitions on the hard
disk.
In cases involving recovery of non-hidden partitions, the physical order of the partitions on the
new disk is not significant. Acronis True Image Home 2011 automatically fixes the appropriate
Windows loader files.
This step allows you to find out whether the disk you are going to recover contains a hidden
partition. Hidden partitions do not have disk letters and they go first in the "Settings of partition
..." steps. If you find a hidden partition, see Recovering a disk with a hidden partition (p. 86).
6. You can specify the following partition settings: location, type, and size. Most likely, you will first
specify the settings of the system partition as it usually has the letter C. Since you are recovering
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