Partition Manager 8.5

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Restoring a Disk from the Image

The restoring process is the reverse of the backup operation, and is performed less frequently. The program includes convenient and reliable Restore Wizard. The wizard provides easy to understand instructions which allow the user to configure and perform all the necessary settings.

Starting

There are several ways to start the Restore Wizard:

In the Main menu: select Wizards > Restore Disk or Partition…

On the Common Tasks bar: click the Restore item of the Wizards menu.

After any of the mentioned actions the Welcome page of the wizard will be displayed.

Settings

The Restore Wizard allows the user to configure the settings and start the operation in accordance with the entered parameters. In our case we set the following parameters of the restore operation:

A backup image Backup Image is an archive of the disk, which includes all the on-disk files and service information on the disk layout. To restore disks from such an archive means retrieving all informational components of the disk (e.g. a hard disk image consists of its partitions, the Partition Table and even bootstrap code). to be restored. The user can browse disks for an appropriate backup image. The Browse for archive page will display information on every image selected in the browser window.

An item of the selected archive to be restored. The program allows the user to restore not only an entire archive, but also separate items of the archive. It’s very convenient in case of restoring separate partitions from the entire disk archive.

A place to restore the archive to. Selecting the destination, please note - all contents on the disk selected for restoring purposes will be deleted during the operation. The program allows inspecting the resulted disk layout.

Size of the restored volume (in case of the partition restoring). The program allows inspecting the resulted disk layout.

Size of the free space before and after the restored partition on the disk.

Results

Depending on the user’s choice the Restore Wizard:

Starts the restore operation,

Allows the user to return and correct the parameters mentioned above.

The wizard will restore a disk (or partition) that has been archived, and make it available to use in the operating system.

The user has the ability to restore original dynamic volumes as dynamic volumes of any type, unless the targeted dynamic disk is of the appropriate size. Moreover the program enables to restore dynamic volumes as basic partitions and vice versa.

Some features may be unavailable in the version of the product you have. To learn more about it please consult the Partition Manager Editions chapter.