Acronis True Image Question

philjayj

philjayj

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Hi

I have created an image of an OS hard drive using Acronis True Image Workstation 9.1.

The image I have was taken from an 80GB drive, but I want to replace that drive with a brand new 500GB drive.

What I want to know is, once I have connected the new drive, can I boot from the boot DVD i created, and install Windows as it was on the old 80GB drive? The new drive won't be partitioned as it has never had windows installed on it - what do I do about this?

Thanks

Phil
 
Should be fine. I believe the drives have to be the same type (i.e. both IDE or both SATA) otherwise you may have problems with the OS drivers. You should also be able to extend the partitions if you want.


M.
 
If your question is, can you boot from the image taken from Tue Image, then the answer will be no. You'll first have to load up the recovery manager? (can't remember the actual name and in work), then you'll be able to load the disk with the hard drive image and use the recovery manager to copy the image to the new drive. Once on the new drive everything should be ok.

Taff
 
Supertaff what are you on about? :)

chuck in your acronis live cd, and the new hard drive, restore the image to the drive, and voilla

depending what you tick in restoring, you may have to extend the partition (it might resize itself to 500gb, i can't remember)
 
generally yes, depends if your motherboard needs the drivers for it.. i've had mixed results from ide to sata

it'll either be perfect, or nothing
 
It does really - you can try and install the SATA drivers before migrating but you may have problems. On some rare occasions you can boot into safe mode and install them or do a repair.

If you are changing hardware I would highly recommend reinstalling from fresh your Operating System and then do Windows Updates, etc. get everything how you want it and then image it. I see little point in imaging a system thats been running for a good while as you'll have a lot of junk on there (tmp files, etc.) that just waste space and fragment your HD.



M.
 
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