Can I restore a tib file to a new disk?

Boot from the ATI bootable Rescue Media and try it, as you should always use the ATI bootable Rescue Media when restoring disk or partition images.

But, the image is from a different PC than the one you wish to restore it to? Please clarify, as if that's the case then it's a more complicated process since drivers will differ between the PCs. Also, you'll be restoring whatever flavour of Windows was on the PC that was imaged, which could differ from what's currently on the PC you wish to restore to.

Steve, in addition to the advice given by Tuttle, you can try to do the following providing that your ATIH 2016 or 2017 application will recognise your old .TIB file and allow you to see the contents.

Connect the drive holding the old .TIB file to your computer running ATIH, then in Windows Explorer, either double-click on the .TIB file, or take the option via the right-click menu for True Image > Mount, to mount the image file as a drive letter.  This will allow you to view the contents of the image file, if recognised & supported, so that you should be able to access any files / documents etc.

If you really do need to restore this .TIB file to a spare / new disk drive, then you can try to do this from within Windows if this is not the computer where this drive will be used.  Connect the spare / new drive to your computer via a USB dock / caddy or USB to SATA adapter, then in ATIH, at the bottom of the Tasks list panel, you will see a (V) icon which when clicked will offer you an option to 'Add existing backup' - click on this and navigate to where your old .TIB file is stored and select this.

Once you have the old .TIB file shown in the task list, you should then have option buttons to Recover disk or Recover files shown, that you can use.

I did this back in the summer for an image of a tablet that I restored to a spare disk drive connected via USB.

Please see KB document: 1689: Backup Archive Compatibility Across Different Product Versions in case your installed ATIH version does not recognise your old .TIB file, in that case you will need a copy of the Rescue Media for an earlier version of ATIH to boot from as Tuttle advised.

Thank you for the replies. I installed a CD drive on the target computer and booted the recovery CD. Luckily my W7 tib (2009) is recognized. 

Thanks Steve for the tip on the V at the bottom of the screen. I didn't notice it. That would have done what I needed from my desk computer. My screen settings made that and one at the top almost invisible.  My old eyes just didn't notice them or recognize them as a control. That had been happening more and more with W10.  Low contrast on controls in software and on electronics is the thing now but hard for me to see. And my eye doc says I don't have cataracts yet.

Regards

Steve, glad to have been able to help.  Understand what you say about low contrast.  I am colour blind and find that a problem plenty of times with different applications etc.

I was using acronis 2018 before and i could restore .tib file to an external hard drive caddy and restore everything. But now since installing acronis 2019 all I see is the "recovery" tab and not "restore" tab. What happened ? what is it so difficult to restore .tib files to a new empty external hard drive ? please someone explain properly

Just a different name, if you use the Recovery tab you it will allow you to restore the files,

Ian

I have 2 hard drives connected to a hard drive caddy. 1 hard drive has the .tib file in a folder. The other hard drive is completely empty. I am using a laptop with it's own hard drive. I cannot see the empty external hard drive when i am recovering, I only see the C drive on my laptop. What the **** is going on....

Sorry but too little information to give you an answer to why the empty drive is not being seen?

What version of Acronis True Image are you using here?
How is the empty external hard drive formatted / how does it show in Windows Disk Management?
Can you see both of the drives in the hard drive caddy in Disk Management?
How is the disk caddy connected to the laptop?
Are you doing the restore from the Windows ATI application or using the Rescue Media?

If the empty drive is truly a raw drive with no formatting then you may need to use the Add New Disk tool to get ATI to be able to see it - this is found in 'All Tools' in the ATI GUI.

i am using acronis true image 2019. The external hard drive is formatted as ntfs active, primary partition labelled E: drive. Yes, i can see both hard drives in disk management. The disk caddy is connected by a USB 3.0 wire inserted into a USB 2.0 port on my laptop (my laptop does not have a usb 3.0 port). I am restoring from a acronis .tib file on my western digital 640 gb hard drive. The empty hard drive is also western digital black edition 500gb. 

Are you doing the restore from the Windows ATI application or using the Rescue Media?

Have you tried using the Add New Disk option in ATI for the external drive?

i am using acronis application, not the rescue media. I have also tried using the add new disk option from tools in acronis. Still the empty hard drive is not added to show up in "recovery" tab.

OK, back to some basic questions here:

What is the size of your source disk that the .tib file you are trying to restore was created from?

What is the size of the new empty disk that you are trying to restore to?

the .tib file is about 120 gigabytes. The hard drive that the .tib file is saved in is 500 GB. The empty hard drive that I want to restore to is also 500 GB.

And also, when i tried using Add new disk from tools in acronis, and i initialized/formatted my empty hard drive. It cleared everything and made the partition unallocated instead of creating something in the empty hard drive. That is so wierd.

the .tib file is about 120 gigabytes. The hard drive that the .tib file is saved in is 500 GB. The empty hard drive that I want to restore to is also 500 GB.

Sorry but this did not answer my question about the size of the original source drive that this .tib file was created from?  Give the .tib file is about 120GB I would expect that this should be able to be resized to fit on your 500GB target drive but there is something strange here that I cannot figure out?

what do u mean ?

I was trying to understand what the size of the original source disk for the 120GB tib file was? Was this also a 500GB drive, was it larger or smaller - it should not make any real difference but there has to be a reason why you are seeing an issue here?

The other question is what OS was captured in the .tib file that you are wanting to restore?

I can only suggest trying this recovery on a different computer, either using the installed ATI application if available, or else using the Acronis bootable Rescue Media to do this.

im not exactly sure what size the hard drive was when it was backed up. But I presume that it was around 500 GB since most hard drives I have here was 500 GB. I also understand that it should not make any difference. I do not understand why the empty hard drive is not showing up after reformatting and making the hard drive active with a . primary partition. I believe it was windows 7 because the .tib file was backed up in 2015.

One further thought - right-click on your 120GB .TIB file in Windows Explorer, then take the Acronis TrueImage > Mount option and mount the image to a drive letter.  After doing this, look again in Explorer at This PC and check what size shows for the mounted drive letter - this will give you a better idea of what the size of the source drive was.

Note: if your .tib file contains multiple partitions, you would need to do the same for each partition.

I did this for an old Vista .tib file of 19GB and it showed as nearly 52GB when mounted as V:

Ok I think i know what you mean when you said what is the size of the source hard drive containing the .tib file. The size of the hard disk is 3TB that contains the .tib file. The size of the .tib file itself is 80.7 GB. The hard disk size that I want to restore to is 640 GB - western digital green WD6400AAVS. Does this help ?

Sorry but this topic has been dormant for nearly 2 years so difficult to just pick it up again without needing to start over again from the beginning!

What type of .tib file are you wanting to restore here?
Is this a Disks & Partitions backup, and if yes, was it for a Windows OS drive?
Is it a Files & Folders backup?

This will make a difference to how any restore will work.

Next, what version of Windows OS are you using and are you still using a laptop with the disk drives connected in an external caddy or dock?

I am wanting a files & folders restore here.. I want everything (all files/folders) that was installed inside the .tib Windows OS to restored to a new drive. I dont care if it needs to be bootable or not. I just want exactly all the files. Right now, currently I'm using windows 10 education (from prev. college license which is now expired lol). Yes, I am using 2 hard drives which are plugged in an external hard drive caddy

Do you have ATI 2020 installed on your Windows 10 computer for this scenario?

If yes, then instead of doing a full restore of everything from the .tib file containing another Windows OS backup image, then just mount the .tib file to a drive letter, then copy any files & folders from it to your external drive(s).

To mount a .tib file, right-click on it in Explorer, take the Acronis True Image > Mount option.

The downside to this is that i cannot access the C:\Users\[username] folder and it says access is denied and when I go about changing the permissions to give access to my windows profile name theres another message saying permissions cannot be set to this folder. Therefore, this is why I wanted to restore to another hard disk instead of mounting it. If it didnt give me this permission error, then i would've used mounting to a drive letter instead of going about this restore option.

ok, understood - the permissions for a mounted .tib file cannot be changed because this is a read-only view of the files.

What you can do here, is instead of restoring the whole disk back to a new drive, you can do a Files & Folders restore from your .tib file, and ensure that when doing this, you change the file recovery options to not keep the original permissions, so that you become the owner of the restored files.

When I look at one of my Disk backup .tib files in ATI 2020, the Recovery page shows me an options to recover Files and further recovery options to not use their original permissions.  The same is available in earlier versions of ATI but the screens will be different to those below.

The problem for me is that the recovery option to recover files/folders does not show up for my new hard disk. I cannot even recover a .tib file. I don't know what is wrong with newer versions of acronis.. but I tried using Acronis true image 2014 and it worked fine without problems/errors. So what is making 2019/2020 so goddam difficult and problematic ?

Do you know what actual version of ATI was used to create this .tib file you are trying to recover files from?

ATI 2020 can recover from all the versions shown in the image below (taken from the Backup Compatibility KB document in my signature).

Do you know what actual version of ATI was used to create this .tib file you are trying to recover files from?

it was created on sep 4, 2015 - so im assuming acronis true image 2015 so my guess is 2014 or 2015 hence why i am currently using ATI 2014.

There shouldn't be any problem with recovering files from a 2014 or 2015 .tib file using either 2019 or 2020 software, but the other option here would be to use the 2014 rescue media to do this by booting your computer using that media.

I didn't have to do that. I dont know why but I couldn't do anything with 2019/2020 it kept backing up the C drive instead of recovering the .tib file

There should be no backup happening if you are trying to recover from the .tib file, so if a backup is running it means that the approach being taken is not correct.

See KB 63240: Acronis True Image 2020: how to restore files from a backup (Windows)

I keep getting stuck when I'm trying to do what you are saying. Help me understand the interface of the new acronis because its not making much sense to me

The KB document in my last post has screen images showing the process you should be following here.