New hard drive!!

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  1. tronic592001

    tronic592001 Registered Member

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    I take it that a new hard drive is automatically formated no mater what drive you get?

    or do i need to formate it?

    :p
     
  2. como

    como Registered Member

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    Re: New haed drive!!

    1/ No

    2/ Not if you are going to restore a TI image
     
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    Re: New haed drive!!

    Not normally, I have had cases where running a Clone (from Linux CD) could not detect the new drive until it had been initialised.

    F.
     
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    tronic592001 Registered Member

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    ok thanks I have two internal SATA drives system and backup.

    What i was going to do was disconect my system drive C:

    Conect my new drive where the old system C: drive was.

    boot into bios make sure i can see it in there.

    then reboot with acronis cd and restore one of my backup sets.

    all done ore have i missed something?

    :ninja:
     
  5. Acronis Support

    Acronis Support Acronis Support Staff

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    Hello tronic592001,

    Thank you for choosing Acronis Disk Backup Software.

    We are sorry for the delayed response.

    Please notice that in order the restored drive to be bootable the original image must contain system partition. Please take a look at this post for a step-by-step restore instruction.
    In the situation you described we may recommend you to perform cloning operation instead, as it is specifically designed for moving the system to a new hard disk. You can find the detailed instructions on how to perform a cloning operation in chapter 13 “Transferring the system to a new disk” of the respective User's Guide.
    Please notice that it is strongly recommended to remove one of the drives (source or destination) after the cloning is finished, and before you boot the system to avoid Windows confusing the boot sequence.

    Thank you.
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    Marat Setdikov
     
  6. dheijl

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    I just did a restore to a new system disk today (from 80 GB to 250 GB) using this procedure, it worked like a charm.

    One tip: execute the "add new hard disk" procedure first before starting the recovery procedure, giving the new system partition the desired size. This way your new system disk partition will automatically have the correct size.

    A lot of people seem to have trouble cloning to a new disk, so I didn't even try it, and I don't regret it. I made the back-up in Windows to an external Fire-wire disk, and the restore from the Linux rescue CD. Took about 2 and a half hours in all (back-up/verify of old disk + restore to new disk of 65 MB of data).

    Danny
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  7. tronic592001

    tronic592001 Registered Member

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    dheijl

    wow long time 2 and a half hours.

    I got about 7 gigs on my system disk, takes me 6 mins to backup in windows.

    just bought a new hard drive done a clone restore n 6 mins....

    o_O
     
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    65 GB of course.

    Danny
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  9. tronic592001

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    then it sood have taken you 55mins aprox

    :D
     
  10. mfabien

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    The Acronis Rescue CD, with the Linux OS, takes near 3 times more to backup or restore compared to the PEBulder CD which operates under Windows.

    Will someone explain why dheijl was able to transfer his internal HDD to an external HDD and from there to a new internal HDD which he was able to boot? Is the answer simply to adjust for partition at the time of restoring from an image? And is the use of an external drive to put 3 drives in the circuit (from drive 1 to drive 2 then to new drive 3) the reason this was as successful as using cloning to a new drive?
     
  11. Acronis Support

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    Hello mfabien,

    Thank you for your interest in Acronis Disk Backup Software.

    We are sorry for the delayed response.

    Please notice that dheijl did not clone the internal drive to external, but created a backup of internal drive located on the external one. Please see this article about the difference of cloning and imaging.

    Thank you.
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