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Figure 16-2. Here’s the payoff for your diligent system imaging. Windows is about to turn your
current, messed-up computer back into the model of PC health it was the day you made the image.
When prompted, find the drive or disc that contains your system image.
When you click Next, you see the “Choose additional restore options”
dialog box, which offers some complicated options. The key element worth
inspecting is the “Format and repartition disks” option:
If this option is turned on, then every disk and partition will be
formatted and partitioned to match the system image. (If this box is
turned on and dimmed, then you have no choice.)
If you can’t turn on this checkbox—it’s dimmed and unchecked
—then you’re probably restoring a system image from one
partition to another on the same disk. Clearly, Windows can’t erase
the disk it’s operating from.
The “Only restore system drives” option does what it says: leaves your
other drives alone.
