> Hello,
> I am scared to proceed.
> After booting guest with Acronis bootable disk there is a choice to
> restore image to:
> 1.
> NTSF (C:) 175.8 GB
> or
> 2.
> MBR and Track 0
>
> The scary part is that 175.8 GB drive appears to be my host c:\ drive!!!!!
> The guest max size was set to 60 GB (default)
>
> Can I be sure that my host drive want be overriden by this operation?
> How to be sure?
> Jack
>

> If you captured the computers cd drive with the virtual cd drive in the
> virtual machine then the software loaded in the virtual machine.
>
> "Jack" <replyto@it> wrote in message
> news:(email address - cut out)...
>> Hello,
>> I am scared to proceed.
>> After booting guest with Acronis bootable disk there is a choice to
>> restore image to:
>> 1.
>> NTSF (C:) 175.8 GB
>> or
>> 2.
>> MBR and Track 0
>>
>> The scary part is that 175.8 GB drive appears to be my host c:\
>> drive!!!!!
>> The guest max size was set to 60 GB (default)
>>
>> Can I be sure that my host drive want be overriden by this operation?
>> How to be sure?
>> Jack
>>
>

>I solved that problem. I put names on drives volumes and now I know which
>one is which.
>I have another problem though.
>Acronis refuses to restore image to my guest c:\ drive (it is greyed out)
>and I suspect that the reason is that c:\drive size is 30 GB but image was
>taken from 178 GB drive.
>I know that using Ghost it was not problem to clone drive to smaller size.
>How about Acronis?
>Jack

> On Sun, 2 Mar 2008 17:24:33 -0500, "Jack" <replyto@it> wrote:
>
>>I solved that problem. I put names on drives volumes and now I know which
>>one is which.
>>I have another problem though.
>>Acronis refuses to restore image to my guest c:\ drive (it is greyed out)
>>and I suspect that the reason is that c:\drive size is 30 GB but image was
>>taken from 178 GB drive.
>>I know that using Ghost it was not problem to clone drive to smaller
>>size.
>>How about Acronis?
>>Jack
>
> Any disk imaging program will have a problem if you have more data
> than the disk size.
>
> How much data is in your image?
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
> http://vpc.essjae.com/
> I do not work for Microsoft.

> image is 1.5 GB
> real size about 8 GB
> guest size: 29.9 GB
> Jack
>
> "Steve Jain" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
>
> news:(email address - cut out)...
>
>
>
> > On Sun, 2 Mar 2008 17:24:33 -0500, "Jack" <replyto@it> wrote:
>
> >>I solved that problem. I put names on drives volumes and now I know whic=
> >>one is which.
> >>I have another problem though.
> >>Acronis refuses to restore image to my guest c:\ drive (it is greyed out=
> >>and I suspect that the reason is that c:\drive size is 30 GB but image w=
> >>taken from 178 GB drive.
> >>I know that using Ghost it was not =A0problem to clone drive to smaller
> >>size.
> >>How about Acronis?
> >>Jack
>
> > Any disk imaging program will have a problem if you have more data
> > than the disk size.
>
> > How much data is in your image?
>
> > --
> > Cheers,
> > Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
> >http://vpc.essjae.com/
> > I do not work for Microsoft.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

> Hello,
> I am scared to proceed.
> After booting guest with Acronis bootable disk there is a choice to
> restore image to:
> 1.
> NTSF (C:) 175.8 GB
> or
> 2.
> MBR and Track 0
>
> The scary part is that 175.8 GB drive appears to be my host c:\ drive!!!!!
> The guest max size was set to 60 GB (default)
>
> Can I be sure that my host drive want be overriden by this operation?
> How to be sure?
> Jack
>