acronis 2010
Before upgrading my Desktop HDD (a few years ago now) I took a disc image of it to a separate backup usb disc. I used the old HDD for other purposes after I had re-formatted it.
My upgraded Desktop HDD has failed. I decided therefore to restore the .tib disc image file from my backup usb disc to the 'old' HDD.
The old HDD, connected to my laptop via a usb hub is 'seen' and is very accessible in Windows explorer. However when I select the Acronis restore option only my C: drive is shown as available to backup to. But, if I select the backup option the old HDD is shown as disc I can backup from.
So, why is it when using the backup option the old HDD is 'seen' whereas if I select the restore option it is 'not seen'.
How therefore can a restore the backup .tib taken to my old HDD??
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I just got my laptop back from repair and now I have a "virgin" computer. I hoped they wouldn't have wiped the hard drive but I thought of that ahead of time. So, I bought another external drive and read everything I could on this forum to learn the best method of backup to use and since many users indicated to me that doing a full-disk backup was essentially the same as cloning. My intention was to restore my computer to its previous configuration. I made 3, what I thought were full disk backups using TI 2010 and validated each. Now to the question... I have identified the three backups and when I choose which disks to restore I can choose between Disk 1 and Disk 4. I selected disk 1. The next step is to proceed which informs me that I will need to reboot. OK. So, after reboot, Acronis window states there was error; retry or cancel. I retry a few times, get the error message again then finally cancel and start all over with the same results. Of the three backups, one has a small file size and the two others are larger (115,000 MB) so I have been using the larger file.
Can someone please help me with this. I can probably manually drag the files from the external disk to my fresh desktop but I worked so hard to make a disk image I don't want to defeat myself putting all my files in the proper places and I'm not sure I have all the serials and activation codes so reinstalling all my applications may not work.
Enough blabber but I don't want to leave any important details out so I can get a detailed response.
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