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Restore System Partition from Bootable CD/DVD

As computer users, you may encounter many problems during the daily use, such as system crash, virus infect or any other disaster. To back up your whole PC, including the operating system plus your data, applications, photos, videos, office documents, settings and everything is a best choice for your data security. We highly recommend trying free backup restore software - EASEUS Todo Backup. Once there is something wrong with your system or data, or need to transfer your partition/disk to another, just run system restore.

Tips: Drive letters will not be displayed and most of the functions are not available under this bootable CD. Meanwhile, EASEUS Todo Backup provides WinPE based bootable disk which is more powerful. Please see the table below:

	Linux Bootable Disk	WinPE Bootable Disk
Media	Linux	PEBuilder & Windows Installation CD
Install required
Support hardware RAID
Support Windows 7
Backup
Mount
Display drive letter

Why we need to Restore System Partition from Bootable CD/DVD

Every application works under the control of Windows operating system. If the system crashed or damaged seriously, you cannot boot to Windows again, of course you cannot do anything while a bootable CD/DVD will help you to go back to Windows. On the other hand, you are not allowed to restore the system partition back to the original one after you have entered Windows. The reason is that all the system files are being used, if you write new files to replace original ones, there must be confliction. So you need to restore system partition from bootable CD/DVD, but all partitions or disks without operating system can also be restored in Windows. So besides backup the partition or hard disk, you need to create a bootable CD/DVD for future use. Learn more tips

Step by step instruction to restore system partition from bootable CD/DVD

Since you may not see the drive letters with the bootable CD. If you are not sure about the partitions, we suggest you assign a partition label to each partition before restore system partition from bootable CD/DVD.

1. Put the bootable CD in to the CD-ROM and change your BIOS settings and set CD-ROM as first boot device. Press "Del" when you are restarting the computer. Move CD-ROM Drive beyond Hard Drive. Press "F10" to save and exit.

2. Boot from EASEUS Todo Backup and choose the right screen resolution. If the computer restarted after you choose a screen resolution. Please try other one.

Screen resolution selection

3. Click "Restore" in central place or "Operation" -> "Restore" from menu bar to run "Restore Data Wizard".

4. In this step, you need to select the backup archive you want to restore. Once you select an image, our product will show the comments and partition(s) contained in this image. Click "Next".

Note: If there is a password protection when creating this image, you need to input the password firstly.

5. Select the partition of the image archive you want to recover. Click "Next".

6. Choose a target partition or unallocated space.

Note: If you restore to your target partition, all the data on the target partition will be destroyed and cannot be recovered.

7. Select a partition type for the restored partition.

8. Specify the size and location.

9. The operation is listed. You may check again whether the operation is correct, click "Process" to perform restore or "Cancel" to give up.

10. After all these steps, you will successfully restore system partition. Click Finish and reboot automatically, then boot from hard disk, or just take out the bootable CD from CD-ROM and reboot.

Tips:

1. If you need to restore your system to other disk, we suggest you restore the system to the first partition of the disk with the same interface.

2. Booting from CD-ROM with USB interface is not available.

3. Bootable CD/DVD doesn't support hardware RAID but WinPE based bootable CD does support and can realize all the features.

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