How to restore contents from saved backup image file/files on newly replaced hard drives?
I want to restore 3 partitions on 2 hard drives from a backup image which contains 2 partitions of 1rst hard drive and 1 from 2nd hard drive
Here is a complete scenario.
I have 2 hard disks in my laptop
Partitions on Solid State Hard drive-1
C: contains os and drivers win7 64bit
D: for main large applications
Partitions on 7200RPM Hard drive-2
E: for small applications such as office, email, etc and data files
F: to install any trial software for temporary use.
I made a backup image of C, D, and E partition on a external usb drive in a single tlb file and then I ran the scheduled tasks couple of times after first back up. Now I see there are 3 tib files
1rst file is over 20Gb
2nd file is about 950Mb
3rd file is about 450Mb
Next week I am replacing the Hard drive-1 and possible Hard drive-2
I have few questions
1. I have never done any restoring and swapping of hard drives so how do I prepare the new hard drive?
2. Since there are 3 image files. What image file should I use?
Or Should I create one image file for each Hard drive?
3. How can I use these image files when I have to replace my both Hard drives?
4. Also I am bit confused about 3 image files and their different sizes.
Thanks for the help.

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I have few more question regarding these incremental backups and restoring from them.
Lets say I have backups
Main full backup 1
Incremental backup 2
Incremental backup 3
Incremental backup 4
Incremental backup 5
Incremental backup 6
5. Can I restore selectively from backup 5 ?
6. How would True image2010 react if I delete backup 4?
7. I want to replace my Hard drive-1. Do I have choice to restore only 1 hard drive at one time since my backup contains both hard drives?
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CNC,
5.
If you have made either full disk or partition images then you can only restore complete disks or partitions. However, if you either mount or explorer the image then you can drag and drop individual files. If you drag and drop programs though, they will only work if they either don't require a registry entry to run, or the registry entry is already installed.
6.
Incrementals 5 and 6 become unusable, if you have consolidation of images setup it will also fail. If you wish to delete images from an archive, make sure you delete from within TI (weirdly you delete from the Recovery option), otherwise the TI database becomes confused.
7.
If more than one disk or partition is in the archive, you can select the disk or partition to restore.
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Thanks Colin, I have successfully recovered my both hard drives in the laptop. It took me about 90min to complete the task including removing and replacing the hard drives.
However I have couple of more questions, I hope you don't mind.
New hard drives have more space and after restoring there is some unallocated space on both hard drives.
8. Can I keep using my existing backup image with incremental backups after resizing the partitions ?
OR
Should I create a complete new backup image?
9. Do I have to create a complete new backup image if I create more partitions out of unallocated space?
Thanks
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8. Yes you can, but the first 'incremental' is liable to be the same size as a FULL as you will have altered the sector counts and positions from what TI already knows. In essence it will perform a new backup, it just won't call it that.
9. If you create extra partitions, then you will need to add those to either the current task or better still - delete the old task and make a new one.
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