Robert in CA wrote:
My mistake, we're restoring the 780/8500? and then cloning correct?


On cloning, I don't remember that we changed the partition size I think we
did that once before but with the 8200. With the 8500 we've just done straight
cloning.


Robert

First off, when doing your planning, for a given machine, we prefer
to have the two "working" disk drives. Say you attempt to restore over
the 780. Then we want the disk drive with that emergency OS on it,
to still be available if there is trouble.

You can restore over the existing C: on either machine and test if
you want. Determine if your backspace key is working. My suspicion is,
with the one month old backup, the backspace is still busted. But, you
can test.

You remember in the slide sets I made, you can click the "Back" button,
select a partition and edit the size. So it is possible to adjust
*any* restored OS to the size you want. When restoring the daily driver
disk for the 780, you might want a slightly larger C: than
for the emergency boot C: on the new drive.

To control the size of *all* of them, you restore the partitions
one at a time.

+-----+------------------+
| MBR | First partition |
+-----+------------------+

+-----+------------------+------------------+
| MBR | First partition | Second partition |
+-----+------------------+------------------+

+-----+------------------+------------------+-----------------+
| MBR | First partition | Second partition | Third partition |
+-----+------------------+------------------+-----------------+

You "drag and drop" a partition from the source MRIMG you browsed
to, then place it on the drive you're "building".

When you do a drag and drop restore like that, it's not likely to
boot. That's because, when you "tease" it by doing one partition
at a time, it does not engage its boot repair as a side effect.

When we get here, and have finished this much...

+-----+------------------+------------------+-----------------+
| MBR | First partition | Second partition | Third partition |
+-----+------------------+------------------+-----------------+

now, it's time to shut down and disconnect the drive with the backups
on it. We *don't* want the boot repair to see the C: on the emergency
boot. The next step is to boot with the Macrium CD again, just the
drive inside the 780 is present, now we use the menu item with
"Boot Repair" in it.

Now, we reboot and allow the 780 hard drive to boot, to prove it
all works.

Let's say the third partition was intended to hold backups.
You would likely want to avoid copying excessive amounts of
material from any backup partition. You can use Disk Management
(diskmgmt.msc) to create a new NTFS partition, call it BACKUPS
and format it, and then it's ready to take backups.

That's an example of a "custom restore". Build it in pieces
as you see fit. Click the Back button, highlight the partition,
use the button to "Edit Partition Properties" and you can set
the size you want.

You can fix drives up, after the fact, with things like the
free Paragon Disk Management 14 program, but Macrium can also
do some of these things for you.

*******

To erase the 780 main drive, you can do that as follows.

1) 780 main drive only. (*Don't* connect the backup drive, as
that would be confusing!)
2) Boot from Macrium CD.
3) There is a Command Prompt icon on the taskbar. Click it.
It runs as Administrator, so you don't need to worry about
elevation.
4) Now, run "diskpart".

diskpart
list disk # only the one disk should now show
select disk 0 # select the drive from the list, which is 0
clean # MBR and partitions blown away
exit
(Close Command Prompt window)

5) What that does, is make an unambiguously clean main drive,
now ready for Restore. Don't do this, unless you are absolutely
sure you have a good backup image to restore!

Anyway, those are some ideas for "doing things your way"
and getting what you want. Yes, we could just restore
any old thing, and "fix it later", but that takes time,
it slaps the disk heads around moving data blocks, and
it's just not very efficient.

*******

After a disk restore, you can move or resize partitions with
this, but it's a bit clunky. The first thing you have to
figure out, is (purple) "Switch to full scale launcher" before
it's ready to go to work. It's filled with features that
are not enabled (being "free"), but it can move and resize
a bit more than the Windows-provided features (which only
resize). Just use the "Move/Resize" if using this, nothing else.

https://download.cnet.com/Paragon-Pa...-10904411.html

Paul