How to restore a data only partition to a different computer
I am in the process of changing laptops. Both are Win7. Both are set up with a C: drive for the OS and an E: drive for all my data, though the partition sizes are slightly different. The new laptop came with the OS installed, and I've already done a migration of the C: drive data using a migration assistant w/ peer to peer networking. Now I need to migrate my E: drive data. The peer to peer connection would let me select the E: drive on the old laptop, but not on the new one (it only sees the C: drive), so I used TrueImage2015 to backup my E: drive to the Acronis Cloud. Now I can't figure out how to restore that backup to the new laptop. I try to do a partition recover to the E: partition on the new drive, but the operation gets some kind of error and kicks out. I can't tell why. Should I be able to do this?

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Well, I did create an new additional data partition on the new computer, but TI won't do the restore. Not sure what you mean by a plain Windows copy, but I finally set up a homegroup and copied over the network.
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