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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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Jon,
The laptop is not needed.

Put the old HDD back in the Desktop.

Boot the desktop using the user created TI Bootable media CD and perform a disk option restore----sinigle checkmarking the disk option as to what is to be restored.

This picture shows the disk option is not checked (disk1 in this example) but in order to restore the disk, the disk option should be checked.

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.