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I wished to replace a hard drive a while ago but after the replacement my system refused to boot.I keep my Acronis backup on an internal drive D: which I had to replace as it reported it was clsoe to failing.When I replaced this drive nothing would work.I noted that on my C: drive there is a large Acronis file labelled "My_System" which is 197Gbytes in size. "My_Backups" was on drive D:. Why do I need both items - one on drive C: and the other on Drive D:? If I want to successfully change my D: hard drive must I delete the Acronis file on my C: Drive to prevent it looking for my "My_Backups" on drive D:?
Ay help would be appreciated as I am new to Acronis.
David Jenkins

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Do not delete any backup file until you are sure you can delete it.
If you need to move your backup files off your failing backup drive, no problem. You can move them back onto your new backup drive. After the moves, validate them using ATI.

It looks like you once used the default system backup featured by ATI to create My_System. This file should NOT be on the C:\drive, if it is supposed to protect the C:\ drive!

Also, the default system backup is not ideal. Next time, create a disk and partition backup where you can make sure that all the partitions of your C:\ drive, including the hidden ones, are included in the backup.

Finally, I believe the default system backup creates automatically a Non Stop Backup for at least the Documents folder. THis might not be needed depending on where you data is...

Thanks for that reply. I tried deleting the system backup on the C:drive but it refused at first saying com was in use. I tried again a few minutes later and it deleted just fine. I restarted and it gave me a message saying it was completing the action and now all is as it should be and I have an extra 188 gb of space on my C:drive.
I've replaced the failing drive and created a new backup on the new D:drive.
Many thanks for the advice Pat L.
regards
David Jenkins