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Question for anyone that's done a system restoration with Acronis True Image

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Ken90630

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Hey, All,

The hard drive in a friend's laptop has died (bad sectors) and I need to replace it. It's about two years old, and I have used Acronis True Image periodically to back up her entire system to an external hard drive just in case something like this were to happen. Needless to say, yay. 😛

Thing is, this will be the first time I've had to restore a system with an Acronis backup. So what's the process/order to transfer the backed up image to her new hard drive? Do I need to format the new drive first, then insert the Acronis CD to boot into the Acronis screen so I can start the restoration? Do I use F11 at some point, or ???

Just curious how to get started here. If it matters, it's True Image 2010. And no, I never created the bootable disc since we have the installation CD (which, as I understand it, will function as a bootable disc).

I'd really appreciate help getting the ball rolling here.
 
As I recall, last time I used this to restore my PC which had a dead HD, i replaced the drive, boot with the boot cd, connected my external and restored the disk image and hoped it worked, and it did!!
 
YOu really need TI 2011 for Win7 - but 2010 should work. You use TI's Rescue Media (CD or flash) and boot to it. It will see both your drives and do a full restore.

For this sort of backup, I prefer a fully duplicate drive done with the Clone process. Just change hardware and boot - no restoration needed. I keep reserve drives for all 4 of my systems.
 
corkyg said:
YOu really need TI 2011 for Win7 - but 2010 should work. You use TI's Rescue Media (CD or flash) and boot to it. It will see both your drives and do a full restore.

For this sort of backup, I prefer a fully duplicate drive done with the Clone process. Just change hardware and boot - no restoration needed. I keep reserve drives for all 4 of my systems.
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Okay, cool. So I don't need to format the new HD first?
 
corkyg said:
For this sort of backup, I prefer a fully duplicate drive done with the Clone process. Just change hardware and boot - no restoration needed. I keep reserve drives for all 4 of my systems.
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Me too. Especially with the low cost of drives, and my use of a small C: boot disk (SSD) and a big drive for all data.
 
I restored from Acronis which I miss!) back on Windows XP, and everything worked great except not 1 thing. The one thing I had to reinstall was Kaspersky Internet Security. The KIS from the restore didn't work, but it was the ONLY thing we had to reinstall from scratch.

So what? Just a few mouse clicks...not like fighting your way through a war hot spot in Iraq, like YOUR BROTHER's are doing RIGHT NOW. Don't be silly over stuuuuupod stuff like this, wtf, doesn't matter a hill of beans (-Bogart, Casablanca, immortal perfection).
 
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