Restore only the D partition from an entire drive backup

[Skyglider]

My friend has been doing entire drive backups to an external USB hard drive using Image for Windows. His internal drive has the Windows 8 partition (C:) and a data partition (D:). What is the procedure to restore only the D partition from the external entire drive backup to the internal drive without affecting the C partition?

Can the D partition be restored while running Win8 from the C partition using IFW in the C partition? Or does it need to be done by booting the Image for Linux CD and select the D partition as the source? Or some other way?

[TeraByte Support]

Hello,

You just select that partition to restore when you go to restore the image.
(presuming normal or automatic restore - not simple mode).

You can do it within Windows provided it can lock D: otherwise use a boot
disk.

"Skyglider" wrote in message news:9684@public.image...

My friend has been doing entire drive backups to an external USB hard drive
using Image for Windows. His internal drive has the Windows 8 partition
(C:) and a data partition (D:). What is the procedure to restore only the D
partition from the external entire drive backup to the internal drive
without affecting the C partition?

Can the D partition be restored while running Win8 from the C partition
using IFW in the C partition? Or does it need to be done by booting the
Image for Linux CD and select the D partition as the source? Or some other
way?

[Skyglider]

TeraByte Support wrote:
> Hello,
>
> You just select that partition to restore when you go to restore the image.
> (presuming normal or automatic restore - not simple mode).
> You can do it within Windows provided it can lock D: otherwise use a boot
> disk.

Wouldn't locking the D: partition make it read only so that the restore cannot write to it?

[Froggie]

Skyglider wrote:
> TeraByte Support wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > You just select that partition to restore when you go to restore the image.
> > (presuming normal or automatic restore - not simple mode).
> > You can do it within Windows provided it can lock D: otherwise use a boot
> > disk.
>
> Wouldn't locking the D: partition make it read only so that the restore cannot write
> to it?


SkyGlider... with IFW "locking" the partition, it can only do it when other tasks are not trying to use it. If you have any apps constantly doing something to that partition, IFW will not be able to "lock" it... usually it's not a problem.

Give it a try... if IFW can't lock it then you'll have to use the Recovery Media.

[TeraByte Support]

locking it prevents anything other than the program from accessing it...


"Skyglider" wrote in message news:9686@public.image...

TeraByte Support wrote:
> Hello,
>
> You just select that partition to restore when you go to restore the
> image.
> (presuming normal or automatic restore - not simple mode).
> You can do it within Windows provided it can lock D: otherwise use a boot
> disk.

Wouldn't locking the D: partition make it read only so that the restore
cannot write to it?

[Skyglider]

Froggie wrote:
> SkyGlider... with IFW "locking" the partition, it can only do it when other
> tasks are not trying to use it. If you have any apps constantly doing something to
> that partition, IFW will not be able to "lock" it... usually it's not a
> problem.
> Give it a try... if IFW can't lock it then you'll have to use the Recovery Media.

TeraByte Support wrote:
> locking it prevents anything other than the program from accessing it...

Thanks Froggie and TeraByte Support. After googling "locking partition", I thought locking was a Windows function and that it would make the partion read only. Now that you've explained that it is a locking function in IFW, I understand why it would work.

Thanks,
SkyGlider