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February 23rd, 2009 14:00
Restoring C: partition with Acronis True Image?
I have several validated images of the C: partition on my Dell Inspiron 1505 laptop with WinXp Sp3. My question is: will the hidden protected partition HPA with Media Direct 3 prevent me from restoring my system to my hard drive in the case of a catastrophic software failure? Is this HPA only a problem if I am transferring ATI image to a new larger hard drive? I just performed this task using Acronis with my Gateway destop pc which had a 60 Gig which I upgraded to a 160 Gig with no problem. Thanks.
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February 23rd, 2009 15:00
I use Acronis True Image Home (current version) and I always do a full backup of my entire hard drive - all partitions not just the C partition. Also, I always do a full backup, not an incremental backup. I haven't had any problems doing it this way, and I've restored my Dimension E510 desktop's hard drive once and a second time with a new (larger capacity) hard drive.
The extra partions on the hard drive are relatively small and don't increase the full backup by much.
I always keep the "last" backup on my external "backup hard drive". That way if something were to happen to the PC or hard drive while I'm doing a new full backup I still have at least one good backup. I've seen people that delete the old backup before they do the new backup and if something would happen they would be out of luck.
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February 24th, 2009 07:00
I don't believe your Dell desktop has Media Direct in hidden partition like my Dell laptop has, therefore a backup and restore would be straight forward like in my Gateway desktop situation I described. Media Direct 3 is really my concern because I think the MBR is contained there,but. I could be wrong? Thanks.