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If your hard disk is divided into multiple partitions, this list displays one item for
the entire hard disk, and one item for each partition. If your computer has
multiple hard disks, this list displays an item for each entire disk and an item for
each partition on each disk. Each partition is identified by its drive letter.
Note: Dynamic disks are not supported.
If you select an entire disk, all the partitions on that disk are protected as a
single entity. This means that you can't later recover only one partition; you have
to recover the entire disk. If you select just a partition, you can subsequently
recover just that partition.
In addition, you can recover a data disk or partition using DiskSafe Express, but
you can recover a system disk or partition only using the recovery CD or when
booting remotely from a backup on the storage system. Therefore, if you have
separate partitions for your system information and your data, you might want to
protect each one separately.
Recommendations:
If your computer has only one disk with one partition, select the entire
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disk.
If any partition (such as an EISA partition) precedes your system partition,
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select the entire disk. This ensures that you can remotely boot from and
recover the disk.
If your disk has a system partition and a data partition, select one of the
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partitions and complete the wizard. Then run the wizard again and protect
the other partition. This provides complete protection with maximum
flexibility.
However, if DiskSafe Express was installed on the data partition, protect
the entire disk rather than the individual partitions. This ensures that you
can remotely boot from that disk.
What to do next:
In this case
You never previously completed the Protect a Disk wizard
You previously completed the Protect a Disk wizard and connected to
a storage system
You previously protected this disk and removed protection, or an
allocation error occurred the first time you tried to protect the disk
Protecting Local Disks
Go to this step
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