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Newbie needs help clonedisk to new drive.

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Hi all,
I have image of old C: drive (FAT32) to USB external drive F:.
I installed WindowsXP to a new master SATA2 drive, using
an adapter. This SATA drive now has the new C: (XP boot drive)
and another primary P: drive (300GB/NTFS/formatted/empty).
My computer stays the same, I just replaced a larger drive.

I am not confident with the XP in new C: (errors booting, etc),
I and don't want to reinstall all the programs, for now.

What option should I use to restore/clone/re-image/mount/etc.
in order to get the old C: back and sits on the new primary P:?
Given I don't know much about Acronis, will there be any conflict
between letter C and P, for example? And also between NTFS
and FAT32?

Finally, can I boot the pc to this P: drive after this action was done?
And slowly reinstall programs to the new C: ?
Can I move/copy/delete files between these two new drives after all?

Thanks, and have a nice weekend.

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If I understand you correctly all you want to do is restore your old C: image back onto the existing C: partition on the newer hard drive, right? You mention something about putting it back on the P: partition, but you don't want to do that. As long as the new C: partition size is equal to or larger than the partition size of your image, there's nothing special that needs to be done, just follow the restore directions for True Image and restore your image to the C: partition using the boot disk (can't restore the system partition while running the OS so you have to use the boot disk). At that point all your installed programs will be exactly as they were when you did the original image capture, so there's nothing else that needs to be done.

If the new partition is smaller than the image you will have to resize the partition during the restore process, which I normally do with Disk Director, so I'm not sure of the exact steps with TI. Since your P: partition is empty there should be no problem with increasing the size of the C: partition if necessary.

Can you be a bit clearer:

There is no "Restore" option anywhere in Acronis Image Home.
I can see "Mount", "Clone Disk", etc but no "Restore"
Can u tell me where?

What boot disk? Window setup boot Disk?

Yes, I have the image of old C:, and would like to have this
to be the new C: in a larger drive.

Look for "Recover". The boot disk is the Acronis bootable recovery environment. See http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=188253. Its also downloadable from your account http://forum.acronis.com/forum/3154#comment-1472.

This is called "half ass assistance".
Can u guys lay out step by step?
What we newbie have is doubts, not stupidity,
and that's why we ask.
Acronis did a very poor job of giving step by step instruction.

If you give a doubtful answer, don't bother post, waste your time
and mine.

Hey, we are users just like you so don't call the assistance "half assed". I think your the one who is "half assed". Open an online support case with acronis http://www.acronis.com/support/ if you don't like our answers. You could look here for some help http://forum.acronis.com/forum/3426.