Restore to new same model hard drive problems
I never had a problem with this in past versions. My Hard drive crashed and I am restoring the disk image to the same type of hard drive using the USB boot disk. While I see the backup location it does not allow me to restore the image of the drive back to the new drive. Was something changed in the newer version to now allow me to do a complete restore to the same drive?
So, I tried installing Acronis on another PC and restoring the backup to the drive using the Acronis tools but I find no such tool?
I did this but it asks me to manually setup the partitions for MBR, C: and the NTFS backup but I don't understand how to map it to the new drive.
Refer item #2 at this link.
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/29618
I follow those instruction I get to figure 8 and there is no Destination of Disk. Only options for Paritions, and MBR
You are good so far, keep everything selected and continue the wizard.
Lucas,
Your attachments shown above is the same as my figure 7. The next upcoming screen should show all attached disks where you choose the target disk and choose the "recover disk signature".
After that it will not allow me to continue. After I pick Settings of Parition 1-2 it uses up all the disk space and will not let me go any farther.
There is no disk space left for "Settings of Partition C"
There should of been two pictures there.. I'll just attach again.
Lucas,
Your attachments shown above is the same as my figure 7. The next upcoming screen should show all attached disks where you choose the target disk and choose the "recover disk signature".
I use to have that option in the 2009 version, but the 2012 version it seams to be missing. I don't understand why it is missing but is very frustrating.
Are you absolutely certain that your backup is a full and complete backup of every partition on the old disk? When you view the old disk inside Windows Disk Management, was there any partitions shown there which you did not include in your backup?
Upon further comparison of your figure 7 and my figure 7, the menu items along the left margin do not match. I see your comment about that in your post--which I had missed.
When you arrive at figure 7, checkmark only the disk. Do not check mark the partitions. The partitions will become checked by you checking the disk box. Does that procedure cause any changes in the left margin menus?
Yes, Thats exactly what I am doing. It does not allow for a target disk after selecting Disk 1.
The attachments you post ed in 9 & 10 appear when the restore is less than the all partitions on the disk. These do not appear in a disk option restore.
if we cannot get the disk option restore to work, then restore only the drive c (458GB) partition.
Refer item #3 at this link illustrates how to restore C only.
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/29618
Edit;
Disrgard this post. Item 3 is not an option as you are restoring to a new disk.
what version and build are you using for the Bootable media restore?
Edit:
Try using the "Add new disk" option described beginning on pge 10 of the pdf then retry the disk option restore.
I just downloaded the latest 2012 version from the website to create the restore tool on my second computer. Build 6131.
Build 6131. (dup post)
Try using the "Add new disk" option described beginning on pge 10 of the pdf then retry the disk option restore.
Perhaps the target disk is not being properly recognized.
edit:
Disregard my post #14.
Item 3 is not an option as you are restoring to a new disk. Your only choices is either 2 or 1 at this reference link.
unallocated and no drive letter... :(
Hmm, How can I prevent this in the future.. If I have another disk failure I want to be able to restore just like I have in the past. It's a alienware m11x so I have no way to repair the boot partition with a windows media.
what is the message being conveyed in post #19? I understand the posting is the result of using the Add new disk option. Does the disk now appear as a target disk?
This is my last post for tonight.
This disk does not appear as a target disk. I think I'm done for the night. I tried to manually set all the parition sizes and doing a restore but it was very trouble some and I have no idea if it will even work. We'll know in a couple hours.
So doing it manual worked..but very annoying that I did not have the correct restore option.
Lucas,
While it is a guess, I have reached a conclusion as to what happened.
Version 2011-2012 changes made it less accurate for the user to know whether all partitions were included in the backup content. Many users when first using 2011-2012 was not aware of the "disk mode" (see note 1 below) option of choosing the entire disk but used either the single or multiple partition mode for their partition selection and thus frequently not all partitions were selected by the user to be included within the backup. I believe your backup did not include the OEM partition and thus TI would not proceed from the Disk selection restore screen to the choose disk as target.
The next link shows how the Windows Disk Management view pictures many of the Alienware partition arrangements. It is my guess yours looked like this as well.
https://forum.acronis.com/sites/default/files/privatemsg/alienware_m17x…
Note the first partition is a small OEM partition.
It is not unusual for some users not to want the OEM partition so your method of creating the partitions of the proper size in advance enabled you to restore into the pre-created partitions. The Recovery partitons was the original active partition so its restore made no changes to the disk and the disk continued bootable.
The disk option restore is normally very easy to accomplish and it the restore method of choice when restore a complete disk backup to the same size disk. You never got that option as I believe your backup did not include all original partitions.
Now, if you were to make a new backup of your new disk and simulate doing a disk option restore, I believe your restore options would match my pdf guide and you would find that a target disk was available. So, to answer your question about what you do in the future, create a new "disk mode" backup and do your simulation. For the test, you could proably point to an external disk to see if all the proper opitons appeared. For a real test, you could get another new disk and repeat the procedure of restoring the new disk with the new backup and you should have a successful disk option restore. This is a test I would recommend. The if you needed to have a workable replacment disk, you could use your test and just update it with a current backup of only your drive C.
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Note 1: This link shows how to choose the "disk mode" option which to me is the most important type backup a user can make. The "disk mode" backup (also referenced as "disk option" backup alwasys insures that the backup includes all partitions. Check figures 4 and 5 at this link.
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/28705
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As for your Alienware Windows DVD, check this link. It appears you can make a special Windows Recovery CD via this method. One thing I am not sure about is whether the content would match your current disk or your original disk--but my guess is tht it would match your original content.
http://supportfordell.iyogi.com/alienware-m11x/recovery-disc-16.html
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Good luck.
Grover