Missing Partition After Using Macrium Reflect to Restore

[br4]

I restored my C drive using Macrium Reflect recently, my first time using MR to restore.

I have C and E partitions on the same disk. After C was restored, my E partition disappeared, so I had to name and format it. Of course, all the data on it was lost, but not a big problem since I had it backed up.

I'm wondering why my restore of only C caused this issue with E. I checked and double checked each step in the restore process since it was my first time. Is this to be expected whenever one does this type of restore?

 

[AddRAM]

When you made your image with Macrium, you only made the image of the C partition, correct ?

And what do you mean E disappeared ? Was it now unallocated space ?

I`ll see if Wolfgang can lend some knowledge.

 

[br4]

Correct on both. I only made the image of the C partition, and the E partition became unallocated. I wasn't expecting that to happen, as I would have copied the contents of E to my backup before doing the restore. (I usually do that when doing major updates and/or changes.)

 

[jumanji]

One reason could be that you had made changes to the partition structure after you had imaged your system partition C: . (Your image had the partition table in sector 0 as it existed then.)

 

[br4]

Excellent observation. I had resized the two partitions between creating the restore file and using it. I guess that's another important item not to be overlooked.

Since my C partition is larger than the original and the restored files, I wouldn't have thought that would be an issue.

It would have been nice if Reflect had told me there was a difference in sizes and what the result would be, thus allowing me to cancel the restore and make the C drive match the size when the restoration file was created, and then do the restore.

Thanks for your thought.

 

[mjf]

Excellent observation. I had resized the two partitions between creating the restore file and using it. I guess that's another important item not to be overlooked.

In future one of the advantages of Macrium vs the Windows inbuilt imaging is that you can avoid this problem.
You can stay with the new target partition structure by using the Macrium "Drag & Drop" - "Note To use the target partition alignment."
Partition Alignment
It's an older link for V5 but should apply to V6.