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Offline FD

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Macrium Reflect Free Version?
« on: March 06, 2012, 07:02:50 AM »
Hello and thanks again in advance!

I installed Macrium Reflect, Free version on my Win 7 system and have a question.  I use the Software on an XP machine and learned that if I have a partitioned HDD that in order to fully restore the drive I must make an Image of all partitions on that drive.  If I don't I restore the OS and lose the D partition and all data on it.  No problem, that was learned a long time ago through trial and error.

My Win 7 system has 2 HDD and each is divided into 2 partitions.  C is where the OS is, D is where Data is.  On the second drive there is music,  pictures, and a copy of the data from the D drive.  My question is this:  In order to properly reinstall Win 7 and the entire C and D partition I would have to instruct Reflect to Image both drives.  If I do that and decide not to Image the E and F drives and I have to restore the operating system and D partition will the second hard drive which contains the E and F partitions on it still be available after the restore?  Or do I have to back everything up?  My XP system only has one HDD with 2 partitions, and that's where the confusion lies.  I realize backing everything up is the way to go, but in my quest to learn I thought  I'd ask.

FD