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Restoring Image Backup Made in Windows

Current version of Disaster Recovery (as of the first release in August, 2010) provides complete compatibility with image-based backups made by Windows version of Handy Backup, but it cannot properly read the "index files" that carry information about Windows-made tasks.

To restore a disk image made in Windows, you need to create a respective restoration task and configure it manually. To do it, please follow these steps:

  1. On the desktop, open Tasks.
  2. Click New Task on the window’s toolbar. The New Task dialog will open.
  3. In the Name field, specify a name for a task.
  4. Select Restore as a type of the task.
  5. When finished, click OK. The respective task window opens.
  6. On the desktop, open My Computer.
  7. Browse for a file containing a disk image that you want to restore.
New Task

Image backups made by Windows version of Handy Backup are organized as followed:

/Task Name/      
follow /backup.hbi
/Devices/
   
  follow /Devices/full drive image
/Devices/Partitions/
 
    follow /P (partition table ...)
/P1 (disk ...)
/P2 (disk ...)
...
  1. Drag-and-drop the desired image file into the What to Restore folder of the task.
  2. Go back to My Computer and double-click onto the name of a physical device where you want to restore the image.
  3. If you want to restore an entire hard drive, drag-and-drop full drive image into the Where to Restore folder of the task.
  4. If you want to restore a specific drive partition only, go to Partitions, and then drag-and-drop a desired partition into the Where to Restore folder of the task.
  5. To run the task, click Restore on the task’s toolbar.
 

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