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restoring my entire disk

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Hiya:

My system has become afflicted with unmanageable corruptions in critical files. I've worked it for a week and finally determined that I wuold try to replace my entire disk from a recent Acronis backup.

Do I need to format the disk first? or does Acronis write over everything, including the OS (Win7Pro)? Do I boot to the OS I want to replace--this seems really weird. I'm reading everything I can get my hands on, but I'd really appreciate step by step instructions.

To be clear: I'm trying to replace what's on my disk with a complete Acronis backup of the same disk.

Please?

Regards and Happy trails,

Scott Needham, Boulder, Colorado, USA

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Scott, welcome to these public User Forums.

To perform any OS recovery / restore, I would always recommend creating and using the Acronis Rescue Media to boot the computer.

You have posted this topic in the ATI 2021 Forum, so am assuming that this is the version you are using here.

KB 65508: Acronis True Image 2021: how to create bootable media

KB 59877: Acronis True Image: how to distinguish between UEFI and Legacy BIOS boot modes of Acronis Bootable Media

The above documents are important because the recovery needs to be performed using the same BIOS boot mode as is used by your Windows 7 Pro OS. 

KB 65539: Acronis True Image 2021: How to restore your computer with WinPE-based or WinRE-based media

When doing the restore of your backup, this needs to be done as a Disk & Partition restore and at the top Disk selection level.

Please see forum topic: [How to] recover an entire disk backup - and in particular the attached PDF document which shows a step-by-step tutorial for doing this type of recovery / restore.

When any recovery is performed, one of the first actions will be to wipe the target disk in order to prepare to recreate the partition structures from the backup image being used, so if you have more than one disk drive installed, please either remove any drives not involved in the restore or else ensure that you select the correct target drive before proceeding.

If you have a spare disk drive of similar size to the original problem OS drive, then consider doing a test run using that spare disk, so that your current drive is set aside.