I just today decided to give the Recovery Backup feature in Power2Go 10 a try. Installed the assessment kit and then made my backup on 2 bd-r. To be sure all things were good I made a system image backup as well on a network share just in case. Rebooted with the cyberlink bd-r recovery disc in drive and away I went. It wiped the c drive I had which it should and then did the full restore. Looks to be working quite nicely. After going through this experience I thought I would like to know more about what the program was doing. It stated only can it backup the c drive. I wondered what if I have stuff on c, d and other drives that I have and need to restore? What if I am using just one disc drive with 2 or more partitions and want it fully restored? My main questions are these:

1) Can the program backup an entire disc reguardless of the partition scheme used? (efi, recovery, data partitions)

2) When doing a full restore and you have either a drive that is bigger or smaller than what was originally used, can the program adjust on it's own to fit the new drive or will it error out if the same size drive is not used?

3) Does this software recreate partitions on the fly before restoring the os and applications? Or do I have to run some partition software to build the partitions before running the recovery discs?

4) If in fact I use a bigger drive than what was originally backed up will the recovery leave wasted space on my new drive which is not partioned and unusable?

Note most of my questions are referring to an automated function and not the specific ones a user might have to do using a different software like Acronis True Image. I understand the reason for this program and not the other's is for its fully automated design which I like very much so.



I scanned this document this morning (Power2Go_ENU.pdf) but wasn't able to find exactly the technical explanation of the questions I mentioned in this thread.