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| 794314 | 2009-07-22 22:03:00 | I am waiting for a new hard drive to arrive to replace a faulty one. Before sending away the old drive for replacement, I made a full acronis backup consisting of 100GB "C" drive and 60 GB "E" drive and have this .tib file safely on an external. Do I need to prepare the new hard drive ie, format or partition it before it will boot up and accept the acronis disc image? As a new drive I imagine that it will not exist until it is formatted but how do you format a "C" drive when it is the only drive? |
minster (9180) | ||
| 794315 | 2009-07-22 22:13:00 | Either do a reinstall or connect it to the pc youre on now (or any other PC) before you send the hdd back. | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 794316 | 2009-07-22 22:19:00 | Sent it away 2 days ago Speedy:) Are you saying that I need to connect it to spare PC and format it, then instal into good PC and run acronis restoration of "C" drive? |
minster (9180) | ||
| 794317 | 2009-07-22 22:23:00 | I've never used it so dont know if the hdd needs to be formatted first, before you restore the image. Only way to find out, is to try it. If it brings up and error, you'll have to format it first. There should be info on the site or in the help file | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 794318 | 2009-07-22 22:31:00 | What " Should happen" -- Install the new HDD in the PC, leave it completely blank Boot the PC from bootable CD that you can make in Acronis -( you should have already made this) ( if you haven't made the CD load Acronis on another PC and make it) -- Tell it to restore - it will locate the new Drive and ask for the Image .tib location - point it to the external Drive. Once it locates it, follow the on screen instructions to recover the saved data. NOW as long as you have made a complete Disk image, it will put back the OS, both partitions, all data. Once finished restoring, reboot and you will have a fully working OS, with programs, data the lot. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 794319 | 2009-07-22 22:42:00 | Thank's Wainui. You say "It will locate the new drive" Acronis boot disc will find a blank hard drive and also recognise the external drive where the .tib is located? Certainly makes things a lot easier than mucking about fitting new hdd to external or spare pc and reformatting first. Much appreciated! |
minster (9180) | ||
| 794320 | 2009-07-22 22:47:00 | yep " should do". It will find / show the drive as blank. Notice I say "Should" I use Acronis with universal restore to dump in an XP image if I need to do a fast install for customers, (takes about 10-15 minutes) then when it reboots change the user details and product key. Never had to pre format a drive yet, the main item that changes is the original Image was made on a 80GB drive, so when installing on a Larger drive I need to check its auto adjusted to the full capacity. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 794321 | 2009-07-23 02:28:00 | Most imaging programs let you choose whether to retain the original partition structure or customise your own. AFAIK Acronis does it for you automatically so you shouldn't need to worry.. If Acronis doesn't recognise it, you won't need to slave it to another PC, just grab any old linux live disc, or BART PE or recovery console and format it.\ Blam |
Blam (54) | ||
| 794322 | 2009-07-23 05:42:00 | Minster, a few days ago I used Acronis to restore an image from .tib files. I was surprised how quickly Acronis restored WinXP and the programs I had on the image files. Like Blam and Wainui said, Acronis should find the new drive and guide you through the process; I cannot recall if one of the steps was to format the drive first but whatever it was easy-peasy. BTW, be sure to make Acronis images (.tib's) from the bootable disk and not from the Acronis program running on your OS. Theoretically either method of making .tib's should be OK, but even running the "validation" step may not mean that the .tib image is good. |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 794323 | 2009-07-23 05:49:00 | I have Acronis TU v9.0. Help on it says If there are any partitions on the new disc, they must be deleted first Misty :2cents: |
Misty (368) | ||
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