ACRONIS TRUEIMAGE DELUXE User Manual page 68

Figure 3.17. Warning of unavailability of exclusive access to a logical drive at
partition restoration
This means the following. Operating system blocks logical drives for some
low-level operations that Acronis TrueImage tries to perform to restore a
partition. In particular, some application might work with this partition data.
It can be MS Word, MS Excel, or Norton Utilities. Therefore, it is necessary to
close all applications before restoring a partition.
In some cases Acronis TrueImage Deluxe can unplug a logical drive, perform
restoration, and connect it again. (In the given situation
by
Dismount
TrueImage Deluxe then prompts you to reboot the PC. So, in the situation
above you can:
• Close applications and click
archive file,
• Click
Dismount
• Click
Reboot
You should remember that you can't force any drive disconnection. For
example, an attempt to unplug a logical drive with an operating system or a
swap file would cause OS to crash.
You can unplug a logical drive in case of a data partition restoration.
If you have free space on a disk, you can use it to restore a partition (for
example, if you decided to enlarge the data partition). You won't have any
problems with it: Acronis TrueImage Deluxe will restore a partition and
connect a new logical drive.
68 3 : Restoring a disk/partition from an image
.) Sometimes it's impossible to unplug a logical drive. Acronis
Retry
to force logical drive disconnection,
to reboot the PC.
Reboot
– retry to restore a partition from an
is replaced