Newbie - Acronis 9 - How to restore?

Windows XP Home - My hard drive crashed. How do I restore the operating system and all of its settings to a new hard drive. The new hard drive already has been partitioned the way I like it. I took the long way around for the data files and mounted them and copied them to the new drive. This doesn't work for the operating system and all the drivers, etc.

Thanks - John

 

Are you using True Image and if so have you created and saved an image of your system?

 

I'm using true image. I did a restore of drive C. Then I did a restore of MBR. The computer starts with MS screen and then goes to a small version of that screen and stops. Never goes into the normal boot sequence.

The computer assigned my CD to Drive D: That was the Fat32 drive before. Not sure of it's purpose.

If I knew of a way to format my hard drive I could start all over again.

 

I'm sorry, I didn't notice that you mentioned Acronis 9 in the Title. Have you tried booting from the Rescue Disk and restoring the complete image of your C: drive to your new drive? For the computer to boot to the Rescue Disk you have to change the boot order in BIOS to boot from the CD first. You restore the complete image of your C: drive by ticking off the box next to Disk 1.

 

John,

Does that mean the new drive is partitioned to a different number of partitions compared to what you had on the old drive when the image of C was created?

It's advised to partition the new drive to the same number of partitions (their size being irrelevant), as the Windows installation being restored is aware of the (previous) number of partitions on disk which now doesn't match the actual layout.

 

Hello johnpsm,

Thank you for choosing Acronis Disk Backup Software.

We are sorry for the delayed response.

Please note that as bVolk mentioned this issue most likely related to a different partition layout of the destination hard drive and the original disk. Therefore, I would recommend that you follow the instruction provided in this previous post to solve the issue.

Thank you.
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Aleksandr Isakov