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Can I restore single image backup of single 1tb drive to two drives in new machine - 256gb and 1tb

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Have a full image backup of my now dead laptop that had a single partition 1tb drive. I wish to restore to new laptop that has two drives - a 256gb nvme ssd and a 1tb regular HDD (probably just put another sata ssd there too) Is this possible? Should I copy the archive then open the archive and remove/delete enough to files to have only 250gb worth of space, restore that? Then open up the copied image and restore rest of the files. Or is there a better way?

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Michael, initial answer to your topic title question is no!

There are more questions to ask beyond saying no.

Your new laptop has a 256MB NVMe drive which I would assume came pre-installed with Windows 10 which in turn has a requirement of using UEFI / GPT for correct operation.

Given the above, what did you have on your old dead laptop?  There is an immediate difference in it not having an NVMe drive and probably many more differences too.

What BIOS mode did the old laptop use?
What Windows OS version and edition?

Personally, I would keep the new Windows 10 OS that came with the new laptop and just restore your user data from the backup of the old laptop, i.e. your documents, images, music etc.

Note: all Acronis .tib backup archives are read-only and cannot be opened to allow files to be removed.