restoring a hard disk image wipes out everything?

Hi,

What are the possibilities of some viruses not being deleted while restoring a clean image of an entire hard drive to an infected drive??

thnx,

 

Zero as long as you are restoring the entire disk from a clean image.

 

thnx, this is what i thought...but I wanted to make sure.

 

However, if you have multiple hard drives and any of the other hard drives contain infected files, they'll still be there and will need to be scanned and repaired or deleted as necessary.

 

no, it is only 1 HD in the system...with 3 partitions, 1 contains the OS, and 2 are free...and i am restoring the whole drive.

 

Hello pifxxx,

Thank you for choosing Acronis Disk Backup Software.

We are sorry for the delayed response.

I would like to confirm thomasjk's and Mudcrab's replies. When restoring whole drive image the destination drive gets completely wiped at the beginning of the restore process; therefore, if the image is clear, the resulting drive will be as clear.

You can find the detailed instructions on how to use Acronis True Image in the respective User's Guide.

Thank you.
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Marat Setdikov