restore boot drive without disk?
I have Acronis TI 2013 (3 pack) installed on a computer with a 60GB SSD boot drive (Windows 7) with backups to an internal mechanical disk in the same machine. I did not create a backup disk and now I cannot locate my Acronis install disk since a recent move. I do have the serial number for the install.
My boot drive recently failed hard, computer does not even detect it. I have a replacement SSD (different brand, 120GB) and I do have another Acronis installation on a functioning computer. Can I create a backup disk on my second computer that will restore the failed machine? If not, how do I go about restoring the failed computer? Is there a download on the site that will assist me? I've been looking through the "knowledge base" and I can't find any instructions for my situation.
Thank you
Thanks. I'll try making a recovery disk from the alternate machine. I appreciate the assistance.
Well, the recovery disk appeared to work. I found the latest backup and told Acronis to restore to the new SSD. One problem is that it gave me three options to check, restore C, E (100 MB partition Windows created on my original C drive), and boot record. I checked all three but if I selected the new drive to restore the C portion Acronis would not allow me to select that drive for the E partition. The only way to proceed was to uncheck E and have Acronis restore the C drive and MBR.
I tried this twice, Acronis told me the restoration was complete, but upon rebooting the computer I got a "no BOOTMGR" message and I was dead in the water. Do I need to also restore the E portion (it seems my only option is to restore it to a different HD than my new OS drive)?
Any help would be appreciated. I'm not looking forward to installing everything from scratch. Avoiding this is the whole reason I bought the Acronis software.
I am assuming that the new SD is the same size or larger.
Click on my signature link 3 and review item #1 which will work for you. Item 2 may work for you as well.
Or, you can use the below as an alternate which is to do the restore in two passes.
1. Check make C and E but do not checkmark the MBR/treack0 and do the restore of C & E only.
2. Upon completion of restore. Do not rehoot. Go back to the restore menu again and start again.
3. Checkmark only the track0/mb to be restored. Or, if absolutely needed, also check the one of the other partition--perhaps the 100mb.
4. Before checking the proceed option, be sure and checkmark the "Recover disk signature" which is located on same page (or proceeding page) as the summary page. (You can see this option inside my #1 guide.)
5. Review the summary page to advise you on what is being restored. This is your information page.
6. Click the proceed page. and do the restore.
Got it fixed, thanks. Your help was invaluable. I didn't have the install sequence written down so it was an iterative process, and of course the last sequence I tried was the correct one. Still, the computer now boots into Windows. Thank you so much.
Yes, doing the Recover Disk Signature part can be an important part as some software uses that for their user id.
Make the next time easier. Change your type backup from partition type to disk type. This is illustrated in my signarture link #1, very first illustration show the "select disk mode" sequnece. Had your original backup been this type, yiour restore would have been much much easier.