My SSD is not working and I have to replace it...how restore my backup ?
My SSD is not working and I have to replace it under warranty.
I installed Acronis True Image 2016 by luck than monthly are copying the C disk (I have to replace) to another disk (E). So i have my backup.
Now I ask.... when I get the new drive (SSD), how do the restore of my backup from disk E to the new SSD which of course is empty?
In old configuration whe power on the computer ...appear for a while Acronis that if select F11 i can use it for operations...but with new empty disk ?
I hope to explain well my situation
Thank Hispa


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If not, you can grab the .iso from your online account and will need to burn it to disc or use a third party tool like Rufus to transfer the .iso to a USB and make it bootable - some users have had boot issues with UsB media using third party tools though, because they don't take the default entries and try to make the USB drives NTFS instead of FAT32 or do other kinds of things like that.
If you have your recovery media and can boot to it, check out these videos for the process...
SunGod2009 - How to backup and restore using Acronis True image - YouTube
Britec - How To Restore Windows 10 from a System Image - YouTube
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But i read some posts like this:
John B.,
For your operations, you should simply create a disk and partition backup of your entire (ie all partitions) current disk to a USB disk. Do this backup form the Acronis recovery CD so that you know that the CD is working.
REMEMBER: the drive letters on the CD are not necessarily the same as the ones in Windows. You C:\drive might have another letter. Your USB drive as well. Look at the labels (labels don't change) and at the drive sizes. This is only when you use the disk. When you restart windows, everything is normal again.
Shutdown your computer, remove your disk (remember which cable it was connected to), put in place the new disk and connect it with the same cable(s). No need to format the new disk.
Reboot the computer on the Acronis CD and we need now to restore your backup. Click on add new disk, select your new disk (make sure you select the right one). Confirm this will delete all data on the new disk. Delete the default c:\ partition ATI is proposing to add on the new disk. Finish the Add new disk wizard.
Start the restore. Select your backup. When select what to restore, choose one partition after the other, in the same order they were in Windows, do not restore the MBR and track 0. When you do this, ATI will allow you to resize each partition. Do not resize any of them, except your C:\ partition or any partition you created. For example, let's say you currently have a system reserved partition of 100MB and a system partition of 230GB, and a recovery partition of 10GB. Your new disk is maybe 500GB. You first restore the system reserved partition, and keep the size at 100MB, with an offset of 1MB just before it, you then restore the System partition and you increase its size to 480 GB, then you restore your recovery partition at the same size (10GB). You can restore each partition one after the other without rebooting. Once all partitions are restored, finally restore the MBR, Track 0 and the disk signature. You are now done.
Reboot the computer. Everything should work.
Or i wrong ?
Thank
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Marco / Hispa,
There are several methods of recovering your system to the new SSD drive depending on whether the current drive is still working or not, and what type of backup you have created on your drive E:\?
If you have created a full disk backup (all partitions) of the current failing drive C as an image file (.TIB) on your drive E: then you can restore this to the new SSD drive with that new drive connected via USB from within Windows using the Acronis application, providing that your drive C: is working to allow this.
Alternatively, you can replace your current drive C: with the new SSD drive, then boot from the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager (F11 prompt at boot) or from the Acronis Recovery Media on DVD or USB stick, and do the restore from that offline environment, outside of Windows.
A third option, if your existing drive C: is still working, is that you could boot from ASRM (F11) or bootable Recovery DVD or USB stick, and do a Clone of the old drive to the new SSD. If doing this, then you should replace the old failing C: drive with the new SSD, then attach the old drive via USB to perform the clone.
Again, see the videos that Bobbo gave the links for earlier.
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Steve Smith wrote:Marco / Hispa,
There are several methods of recovering your system to the new SSD drive depending on whether the current drive is still working or not, and what type of backup you have created on your drive E:\?
If you have created a full disk backup (all partitions) of the current failing drive C as an image file (.TIB) on your drive E: then you can restore this to the new SSD drive with that new drive connected via USB from within Windows using the Acronis application, providing that your drive C: is working to allow this.
Alternatively, you can replace your current drive C: with the new SSD drive, then boot from the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager (F11 prompt at boot) or from the Acronis Recovery Media on DVD or USB stick, and do the restore from that offline environment, outside of Windows.
A third option, if your existing drive C: is still working, is that you could boot from ASRM (F11) or bootable Recovery DVD or USB stick, and do a Clone of the old drive to the new SSD. If doing this, then you should replace the old failing C: drive with the new SSD, then attach the old drive via USB to perform the clone.
Again, see the videos that Bobbo gave the links for earlier.
Big thank... my situation is:
- in my computer disk c (SSD) where there is system is not more recognized from motherboard so i change it in warranty
- in my compter i a backup that over time has increased for scheduled backups that every month and this is in another disk (E)
so this is.
Now i insert new SSD and ??? i can use F11 also the old system disk is not more present ? or i have to use a USB stick create with rescue media builder, startup with this and make a restore form my drive E to new SSD ?
Thank for clarification and hel
Hispa
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In your current situation you will need to use rescue media to restore your backup image to the new drive. Your circumstances with C: drive not beign present at all or available leave you with no other choice.
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