casey Posted August 30, 2016 Report Share Posted August 30, 2016 Doesn't make Acronis look good. If you go to disk management it is there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanHo Posted August 30, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 30, 2016 I think that there is a small hidden partition on all bootable drives to tell the computer how to boot up and which files to load. This will not show up in Acronis if you do a partition restore. If however you are doing a system restore from a system backup - you will see it - but without a drive letter. Some backup Apps show the hidden partition anyway - and that includes EasUs TODO which I have on trial and is looking very promising. I recall many moons ago trying to restore my computer which would not boot up properly - by restoring just the C: Partition. It didn't work and the Acronis help line suggested I did a system restore which would restore the hidden partition as well as the C: Drive - which did work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted August 30, 2016 Report Share Posted August 30, 2016 I am confused Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted August 30, 2016 Report Share Posted August 30, 2016 26 minutes ago, andsome said: I am confused It is probably the result of a surfeit of Mahler ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belatucadrus Posted August 30, 2016 Report Share Posted August 30, 2016 2 hours ago, Boris said: It is probably the result of a surfeit of Mahler ? Could be worse, what if he's coming down with Justin Bieber syndrome ? I mean he seems the type, look at the profile picture looks like a Belieber to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted August 31, 2016 Report Share Posted August 31, 2016 I have never had any partitions on my computer. When I boot up from the Acronis disc, I just select one of the back ups on my plug in hard drive and Acronis does the rest. All my Acronis back ups just show the C drive if I open them to have a look. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanHo Posted August 31, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 31, 2016 Andsome - you probably don't make many additions or changes to your computer and are happy that your backups are always sufficiently up-to-date. In my case my docs and pics folders are an ever changing feast - and weekly Back-ups could result in losing a whole week's valuable work. That is why I have a separate drive for all my docs and data which is backed up daily every time I shut down the computer using "Second Copy" software. We live on a small retirement estate and I am the director of the Management Company - thus keeping myself busy with all the correspondence, financials, liaison with our shareholders/inmates, Newsletters, plus supervision of contractors and services that is involved. Losing any of this information would be a disaster. Hence I have a well-over-the-top backup regime with backups of everything duplicated on a hard disk in the study and one kept in our garage which is 40 yards remote from the house. If my computer gets grumpy - I can therefore restore the C: drive and leave all the data alone or restore the data and leave the C: Drive alone or restore both. In the event that the computer gets totally wrecked or stolen - I have a remote and up-to-date source of the C: and D: drives to reinstall everything on a new machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted August 31, 2016 Report Share Posted August 31, 2016 Do you mean you have thrown away your sprig of lucky heather and gone all modern??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted August 31, 2016 Report Share Posted August 31, 2016 1 hour ago, AlanHo said: Andsome - you probably don't make many additions or changes to your computer and are happy that your backups are always sufficiently up-to-date. In my case my docs and pics folders are an ever changing feast - and weekly Back-ups could result in losing a whole week's valuable work. That is why I have a separate drive for all my docs and data which is backed up daily every time I shut down the computer using "Second Copy" software. We live on a small retirement estate and I am the director of the Management Company - thus keeping myself busy with all the correspondence, financials, liaison with our shareholders/inmates, Newsletters, plus supervision of contractors and services that is involved. Losing any of this information would be a disaster. Hence I have a well-over-the-top backup regime with backups of everything duplicated on a hard disk in the study and one kept in our garage which is 40 yards remote from the house. If my computer gets grumpy - I can therefore restore the C: drive and leave all the data alone or restore the data and leave the C: Drive alone or restore both. In the event that the computer gets totally wrecked or stolen - I have a remote and up-to-date source of the C: and D: drives to reinstall everything on a new machine. I have my photos,downloads,etc,etc,in fact anything that I value and don't want to loose,on my 1TB D drive This is duplicated on a small 80GB plug in drive,and saved yet again on memory sticks. The only things on my 1TB plug in drive are my mirror images,and a couple of these are also saved on the D drive. I have loads of space to spare at present. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted September 2, 2016 Report Share Posted September 2, 2016 If anyone is thinking of buying TODO backup this weekend - they have just sent me details of a special 50% off code they are giving out. See below. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IMTNT Posted September 2, 2016 Report Share Posted September 2, 2016 I will not buy it...they spelled labour wrong and about 6 months early. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted September 2, 2016 Report Share Posted September 2, 2016 54 minutes ago, IMTNT said: I will not buy it...they spelled labour wrong and about 6 months early. It's obviously an American company, so th e spelling is correct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted September 2, 2016 Report Share Posted September 2, 2016 59 minutes ago, andsome said: It's obviously an American company, so th e spelling is correct. I don't think so !! EaseUS is a Chinese online software company specializing in data backup, data recovery, data transfer, and partition management products for Android, iOS, Mac OS X, and Windows devices. Founded in August 2004, the company is powered by Chengdu Yiwo Tech Development Co., Ltd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted September 2, 2016 Report Share Posted September 2, 2016 Maybe they are Chinese Americans Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IMTNT Posted September 2, 2016 Report Share Posted September 2, 2016 I think all American companies are now in China. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casey Posted September 9, 2016 Report Share Posted September 9, 2016 Just found Paragon are giving away Paragon backup 16 for free for a limited period (Oct 16th). Have not actually carried out a back up yet but looks okay. Partitions, full drive, files and folders, scheduled b/ups and incremental b/ups. Have to create an account to get the serial number. https://www.paragon-software.com/home/brh/download.html By the way it shows the small second partition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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