Skip to main content

Changing HD on Laptop

Thread needs solution

Hi everyone,
If I replace my old HD on my Toshiba Satellite A110 Pro , by a new one, will Acronis be able to handle the whole process through the rescue disc, without any Firewire connecting device between both DD's and/or the Laptop ?
Thank you.

0 Users found this helpful

Yep. Assuming you backed up the old disk onto a USB disk or something and then boot from Acronis CD...

Hi Paul,
So it means that reformating the new hdd can be done on the laptop where the old hdd is being replaced and this working with only one laptop.?
Has anyone ever tried it on this forum?
Thank you.

Hi, I recently changed my Hard drive on my Laptop after making a complete backup Image to my NAS box on my Network, removed old Hard disk Installed new Hard disk to Laptop, boot from Acronis boot cd and restored Image from NAS box on to new Hard disk, I used ABR10 Advanced Workstation, If you got your backup image on a usb drive connected to the Laptop then thats ok should be pretty easy, as the previous poster said
ps. if you got clone feature in your Acronis version you could use that also
Good luck
Stephen

As I was eager to know,I bought a new HD and tried the experience myself.It worked perfectly all the way through ,as I was told here.
Thanks to Paul and Stephen.

Stephen wrote:
ps. if you got clone feature in your Acronis version you could use that also
Good luck
Stephen

According to Acronis support that would not work.
If you transfer a clone from an external USB drive to an internal drive,the internal drive would not boot.

Babac, You wrote: "According to Acronis support that would not work. If you transfer a clone from an external USB drive to an internal drive,the internal drive would not boot. " That statement is not totally true nor totally false. Your statement is true if referring to a Thinkpad or Lenova Laptops plus some other brands of laptops. However, there have been successful postings of cloning from the computer to an external source and the clone did boot when installed. These successes apply to some desktops and to some brands of laptops. However, your best chance of success when cloning is to clone when booted from the TI Rescue CD and perform the clone with the empty blank disk placed in its intended boot position. Source disk would be located in an alternate location--such as another internal slot or an external drive, etc.

Note also, that Stephen was referring to new disk being in its proper boot location before restoring or cloning.

Grover, thanks for these explanations.

Hi, I was speaking from passed experience regarding clone feature as I did this on an old desktop computer, after cloning C: drive to a slave (internal) I removed the old C: drive and put new clone as boot, and that worked.
Never done it on Laptop though, thought it might work?
Regards
Stephen

Stephen,
Usually, there is little problems when cloning or restoring to another internal locations. After the procedure, you can remove the connector from the old drive and attach the new drive onto the same connector leaving the old drive disconnected for first boot following the procedure.

Any time you are cloning or restoring your system disk, it is best to perform the procedures when booted from the TI Rescue CD.