ACRONIS Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition User Manual page 225

Properties
Type
A basic MBR disk can contain up to four primary volumes or up to three primary volumes and
multiple logical drives. By default, the program selects the original volume's type. You can change
this setting, if required.
 Primary. Information about primary volumes is contained in the MBR partition table. Most
operating systems can boot only from the primary volume of the first hard disk, but the number
of primary volumes is limited.
If you are going to recover a system volume to a basic MBR disk, select the Active check box.
Active volume is used for loading an operating system. Choosing active for a volume without an
installed operating system could prevent the machine from booting. You cannot set a logical
drive or dynamic volume active.
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Logical. Information about logical volumes is located not in the MBR, but in the extended
partition table. The number of logical volumes on a disk is unlimited. A logical volume cannot be
set as active. If you recover a system volume to another hard disk with its own volumes and
operating system, you will most likely need only the data. In this case, you can recover the
volume as logical to access the data only.
File system
Change the volume file system, if required. By default, the program selects the original volume's file
system. Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 can make the following file system conversions: FAT 16 -> FAT
32 and Ext2 -> Ext3. For volumes with other native file systems, this option is not available.
Assume you are going to recover a volume 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 volumes up to 4GB, so you will not be able to recover a 4GB FAT16
volume to a volume that exceeds that limit, without changing the file system. It would make sense
here to change the file system from FAT16 to FAT32.
Older operating systems (MS-DOS, Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.x, 4.x) do not support FAT32 and
will not be operable after you recover a volume and change its file system. These can be normally
recovered on a FAT16 volume only.
Logical drive letter (for Windows only)
Assign a letter to the recovered volume. Select the desired letter from a drop-down list.
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With the default AUTO selection, the first unused letter will be assigned to the volume.
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If you select NO, no letter will be assigned to the recovered volume, hiding it from the OS.You
should not assign letters to volumes that are inaccessible to Windows, such as to those other
than FAT and NTFS.
6.3.6.3 Virtual machine type / virtualization server selection
The new virtual machine can be created either on a virtualization server (this requires Acronis Backup
& Recovery 10 Agent for Hyper-V or Agent for ESX/ESXi to be installed) or in any accessible local or
networked folder.
To select the virtualization server the new virtual machine will be created on
1. Choose the Place on the virtualization server that I select option.
2. In the left part of the window, select the virtualization server. Use the right part of the window to
review details on the selected server.
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