Changing The Restored Partition Type; Changing The Restored Partition File System; Changing The Restored Partition Size And Location - ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE 9.1 - WORKSTATION User Manual

7.3.6 Changing the restored partition type

1. When restoring a partition, you can change its type, though it is not required in most
cases.
To illustrate why you might need to do this, let's imagine that both the operating system and
data were stored on the same primary partition on a damaged disk.
If you are restoring a system partition to the new (or the same) disk and want to load an
operating system from it, you will select Active.
If you restore a system partition to another hard disk with its own partitions and OS, most
probably, you will need only the data. In this case, you can restore the partition as Logical
to access the data only.
By default, the original partition type is selected.
Selecting Active for a partition without an installed operating system could prevent your
workstation from booting.
2. Click Next.

7.3.7 Changing the restored partition file system

1. Though seldom required, you can change the partition file system during its restoration.
Acronis True Image Workstation can make the following file system conversions: FAT 16 ->
FAT 32, Ext2 -> Ext3. For partitions with other native file systems this option is not
available.
Let us imagine you are to restore a partition from an old, low-capacity FAT16 disk to a
newer disk. FAT16 would not be effective and might even be impossible to set on the high-
capacity hard disk. That's because FAT16 supports partitions up to 4 GB, so you will not be
able to restore a 4 GB FAT16 partition to a partition that exceeds that limit without changing
the file system. It would make sense here to change the file system from FAT16 to FAT32.
However, keep in mind that not all operating systems support FAT32. MS-DOS, Windows 95
and Windows NT 3.x, 4.x do not support FAT32 and will not be operable after you restore a
partition and change its file system. These can be normally restored on a FAT16 partition
only.
2. Click Next.

7.3.8 Changing the restored partition size and location

1. You can resize and relocate a partition by dragging it or its borders with a mouse or by
entering corresponding values into the appropriate fields.
Using this feature, you can redistribute the disk space between partitions being restored. In
this case, you will have to restore the partition to be reduced first.
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