Acronis 8 restore partition

I have an old image of my basic W2000 setup drive.
I want to retore it to a new drive.
My current W2000 is getting flaky and I want to start over.
In the source part of retore it is easy to select the TIB file.
When it comes to the destination there is only one choice shown.
That is the original drive it came from.
How do I select the drive I really want to put the image back on?
The drive shows up in the list of drives where I pick the TIB file drive.
Sam

 

I have noticed that a new disk needs to be formatted in order for acronis to recognize it as a destination. Don't know why since it's just going to wipe out the formatting anyway but it does. Don't know if this is always the case, just thought I would let you know that if it is brand new drive you might try this.

 

Hi, patwhatsthat

I must say I am sorry? but that is incorrect, the HDD does not [Should not be formatted] have to be formatted, if it is formatted Ti will need to delete the Partition before it can do a restore.

Is the HDD you are selecting big enough to restore to?

Take Care,
TheQuest

 

Thanks for setting me straight. At my age the memory is frequently inaccurate. It was just something I thought I had noticed once upon a time. Thanks again

 

The problem is not the size of the drive.
The problem is that the drive I want to load the backup to does not show up in the list of drives to restore to.
The only drive that shows up is the drive that was originally backed up.
There are 10 partitions on this computer.
I would like them to all show up so I have a choice of where to restore my TIB to.
Sam

 

Hi, franc

Sorry I just re read your fist post,

Is that the HDD you are trying to restore to?

Take Care,
TheQuest

 

Hello franc,

Thank you for choosing Acronis Disk Backup Software.

First of all, please make sure that you use the latest build (937) of Acronis True Image 8.0 which is available at: http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/support/updates/

You can find the full version name and build number by going to Help -> About... menu in the main program window.

To get access to updates you should create an account at:
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/my/
then log in and use your serial number to register your software.

Note that you should create new Bootable Rescue CD after installing the update.

If the problem still persists with the latest build (937) of Acronis True Image 8.0 then please provide us with the following information:

- Did you try to restore the image of your system partition to another physical hard drive or to another partition on the same physical hard drive?

- Did you try to restore this image when the latest build (937) of Acronis True Image 8.0 was running from under Windows or when your computer was booted from Bootable Rescue CD created using the latest build (937) of Acronis True Image 8.0?

- Describe actions taken before the problem appears step-by-step.

Thank you.
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Alexey Popov