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CANNOT RESTORE TO NEW DISK - IMPOSSIBLE NICE!

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CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN STEP BY STEP HOW TO RESTORE A BACKUP IMAGE TO A NEW DISK *AND* MAKE IT BOOTABLE?

 

HINT: IMPOSSIBLE - DOESN'T WORK

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Hello Jorge,

I'd suggest taking a read of the guidelines in https://forum.acronis.com/forum/acronis-true-image-2017-forum/how-recover-entire-disk-backup

I found a solution: downgrade to 2014. The 2018 linux boot disk, bootable USB media, does not let you properly restore a bootable disk image because the the target disk partition "becomes" grayed out:

Select items to recover
Click -> Disk 1

Next

Specify recover settings of Partition 1-1
Click -> New location -> Unallocated

Specify recover settings of Partition C
Click -> New location ...

This is where the chaos starts

I have options to recover to:

1. My Acronis USB boot drive
2. My empty disk partition 'Unallocated'
3. My USB drive holding my restore image

When I click on #2 it also selects #1 automatically. Then I tab out or attempt to click next (without releasing the mouse button) and it grays-out both #1 and #2. This is obviously a bug.

I don't understand how something like this could have passed quality control.

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Thanks for the info. I'm not quite sure what it could be. Those threads seem to point to UEFI over Legacy. Before I booted the USB media I used a USB drive to boot SystemRescueCD and it booted in Legacy mode. So that would indicate that TI was also in Legacy mode. Nonetheless, using a 2014 boot CD solved the problem. And as an update: I tried a 2018 boot CD image under QEMU with the restore image over a SMB share and I had no issues there. So it seems to be a USB drive related issue. Because there is no way to tell between UEFI or Legacy, or so it seems, it would help if ATI displayed its boot mode.

I should also mention, originally on 2018 USB I was able to restore partition by partition, which seemed to be a way around they disabled (grayed out) issue, however, the system didn't boot, giving me an MBR error.

Thanks for the link! Then It was legacy mode. Very possibly this is a USB boot issue and/or/in/conjunction with restoring from a USB drive. I usually backup and restore over the network (SMB) after booting an ATI CD and this is the first time I tried booting off a USB drive and restoring from a secondary USB drive.

The 2018 linux boot disk, bootable USB media, does not let you properly restore a bootable disk image because the the target disk partition "becomes" grayed out:

Select items to recover
Click -> Disk 1

Next

Specify recover settings of Partition 1-1
Click -> New location -> Unallocated

Specify recover settings of Partition C
Click -> New location ...

Jorge, the reason for the drive becoming 'greyed out' is simply because when you are specifying the recovery settings partition by partition, there is insufficient space left because the sizes are incorrect.

See forum topic: [How to] recover an entire disk backup - and in particular the linked PDF document showing how to avoid this issue by not manually sizing partitions.