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My System HDD has crashed beyond repair

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Please advise if I need to upgrade to True Image Home 2013 or need to purchase disk director,

Here is my problem. I have Acronis True Images 2010 Home Edition English. My Desktop has completely crashed and I have had to have a new HDD fitted.

Before crash the Systems was as follows:-
WIN XP Pro SP3
Acronis recovery disk
480 GB HDD partitioned 117 GB (C: System) 246 GB (D data)
READYNAS containing one single TLB disk image of "C: and D:"
Copy of Acronis License key and download exe available.

System after crash:-
No OS installed (XP Pro SP3 disks available)
1 TB empty HDD fitted, formatted and partitioned C: 286 GB D: 656 GB
Acronis recovery CD
Acronis True Image 2010 build #7160 on CD

External 1 TB USB drive (completely blank)

Questions.
I was proposing to recover from TLB file however the disk is new, larger, and both partitions are larger.
Can I maintain C: 286 GB partion size and d:656 GB partition size using 2010 Home edition or do I need upgrade or Disk Director?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated - urgently of course. I have not switched on as yet,

Barry Green
United Kingdom

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If you can boot your computer on the 2010 recovery CD and you can see your disk normally, then you don't need to upgrade. You just restore each partition separately on each of your target partitions (pay extra attention to partition labels and characteristics to make sure you select the right source and destination, since the drive letters shown on the recovery CD might be different from the Windows ones).
You don't need to reboot between the 2 restores.
At the end, restore your MBR+track0 separately and the disk signature (I am not sure the 2010 version offers disk signature).