How to restore from an External Drive
Acronis 2016 is installed and running. My external hard drive is connected with a separate backup of C & D drives. I want to restore my D drive. The drive shows the combination of both GB and the destination drive is correct. The next is set to “Backup Now”.
Since it does not say “Restore”, I am not sure what is going to happen next.
How will it find the correct backup to restore if I cannot get the correct D file to be shown as the item to restore?
If I use my startup disk, it would work if I could get it to SEE my external drive. Is this possible?
I just want to restore my D drive to my desktop from the external drive. How can I do this?
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In the lower left of screenshot is "recover disks". That's where you'd go from within the GUI.
As Pat mentioned though, since you just want to recover the data to your desktop, you could simply navigate to the backup .tib file in Windows Explorer, double click on it and it should open up the contents of the backup. Then just copy and paste out of it. This works great for DATA, but not if you have applications tied to these files since it would not restore specific settings or registry keys that would be needed to make them useable. As for raw data though (pictures, photos, documents, files, etc - works great).
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