Restoring a System Volume

The primary purpose of Recovery Environment is to restore a system volume that cannot boot on its own. The Recovery Environment CrossPlatform provides two functions to create partitions and restore a system volume:

Restore Disk Layout from Image

This option in the Tasks menu restores the exact original primary partition layout structure that existed on the source machine drive where the image was created. Note this will not restore a GPT or LVM layout. Use the LVM tool to complete the logical volume layout when restoring these types of volumes.

Restore Wizard

Runs the wizard to guide the user through the process of restoring the contents of a single volume.

Note: Recovery Environment CrossPlatform only supports restores from .SPF and .SPI image files, not from VMDK, VHD, or VHDX format files.

Supported Sector Sizes

Contemporary hard drives and SSDs ship with a 4096-byte physical sector size. Most also support the 512-byte logical sector size. (These drives are often labeled 512e for "512 Byte Sector Size Emulation".) ShadowProtect supports backing up both 4096- and 512-byte logical sector sizes.

In the unusual situation of restoring a partition/volume from one logical sector size to another:

Note: CrossPlatform will issue an error message during the restore if it encounters a mismatched sector size.