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If your hard disk is divided into multiple partitions, this list displays one item for the entire
hard disk, and one item for each partition. If your computer has multiple hard disks, this list
displays an item for each disk and an item for each partition on each disk. Each partition is
identified by its drive letter.
Note: Dynamic disks are not supported.
If you select an entire disk, all the partitions on that disk are protected as a single entity. This
means that you can’t later recover only one partition; you have to recover the entire disk. If
you select just a partition, you can subsequently recover just that partition.
In addition, you can recover a data disk or partition using DiskSafe Express, but you can
recover a system disk or partition only using the recovery CD, so if you have separate
partitions for your system information and your data, you might want to protect each one
separately.
Recommendations:
• If your computer has only one disk with one partition, select the entire disk.
• If any partition (such as an EISA partition) precedes your system partition, select the
entire disk. This ensures that you can remotely boot from and recover the disk.
• If your disk has a system partition and a data partition, select one of the partitions
and complete the wizard. Then run the wizard again and protect the other partition.
This provides complete protection with maximum flexibility.
However, if DiskSafe Express was installed on the data partition, protect the entire
disk rather than the individual partitions. This ensures that you can remotely boot
from that disk.
If you have never previously completed the Protect a Disk wizard, go to Step 3.
If you have previously completed the Protect a Disk wizard and connected to a storage
system, go to Step 4.
If you have previously protected this disk and removed protection as described in Removing
protection, go to Step 5.