To restore the backup image, insert your first Backup-CD/DVD into the CD/DVD drive and boot from that CD/DVD. You possibly have to change the boot sequence in the BIOS. Make sure that the system tries to start from CD first. Newer systems don't require these manual changes.

The following dialogue appears:

The table contains a list of the partitions found in your system. If the desired target edition already exists, select it using the cursor keys and hit RETURN.

Warning This will overwrite the selected partition with the contents of the backup image. All existing data in the target partition will be overwritten!

If the target partition does not exist (maybe because a new hard disk has been installed), you have the following options:

• select an entry labelled "free space" and hit RETURN; this will create a new partition at the beginning of the selected free space that has the same size as the backed up partition

• press F7 to restore the partition table of the backed up hard disk. This will restore all primary partitions that existed when the backup was created. If the backed up partition was a primary partition, it will be displayed right after the confirmation dialog was confirmed. Select the appropriate partition and press RETURN to restore it.

• if the backed up partition was not a primary partition, either use available free space (as described above) or use a 3rd party partitioning tool to create a suitable partition; an example of a very good partitioning software is the free GParted software.

Useful Information if you are unfamiliar with hard disk partitioning and want to do anything beyond restoring a single system partition, we recommend further reading or assistance by a computer expert. the F6 key restores the program area of the backed up hard disk; this is the boot code that is executed the very first time the computer accesses a boot hard disk. New hard disks require this boot code to be restored.