Newbie advice regarding HDD replacement
Hi there,
I've recently been recommended Acronis True 2016 and find it to be fantastic so far.
My home PC has since developed a fault and, as it's still under guarantee with Dell, I will be sending it off to their service centre soon to have the HDD replaced - it's still currently operational, but with errors.
I have configured a daily Incremental "Entire PC" backup to an external USB HDD, which has been running and validating fine to date.
I have a couple of questions though....
1. Will these backups include the entire OS, programs and files, etc? (File extensions are .tib)
2. Dell are going to install an OS on the replaced drive, but nothing else. Will I therefore simply need to install Acronis, and then kick off a restore from the files on the USB HDD?
3. I will need to keep working with some of my files/folders while my PC is off being repaired. I was therefore thinking of installing Acronis on my laptop and restoring the particular files/folders that I require from my PC backup. Can I do this using the existing Entire PC backup, or would I be better to create a separate Folder backup to restore from?
4. Once the full restore has taken place on my PC, would I then simply restore the interim Folder backup (taken from my Laptop) over the top, to update the files that I've worked on since?
Many thanks in advance! :)
Chris


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I had Acronis 2015 on my desktop when the hard drive failed and had to be replaced. The Acronis 2015 was lost. I get the impression that the new Acronis 2016 upgrade only modifies the Acronis 2015 existing on my computer. What if the 2015 version is not there?
will the 2016 upgrade work?
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Memphis Hixson wrote:I had Acronis 2015 on my desktop when the hard drive failed and had to be replaced. The Acronis 2015 was lost. I get the impression that the new Acronis 2016 upgrade only modifies the Acronis 2015 existing on my computer. What if the 2015 version is not there?
will the 2016 upgrade work?
Hi Memphis Hixson,
You can always go to the Account at Acronis and download the upgrade version within the 2015 version, again.
http://www.acronis.com/en-us/personal/computer-backup/ Click on My Account. and sign in. Click on Downloads Choose Web Version or Full Version to download.
The Upgrade 2016 will restore images made with the 2015. However, unless you are entitled to a Free Upgrade to 2016 from 2015, I would wait for 2017 to come out.
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Brilliant, that sounds great Pat, thank you. :)
So, I just need to create the rescue CD now, and then I'm good to go.
Cheers,
Chris
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[quote=Pat L]
If the problem was a hardware one, you would just restore the image ("Entire PC" backup) to your fixed computer, using the Acronis recovery CD.
So make sure you produce this rescue media and you try to boot your computer on it. Try to restore a couple of files from your backup while you are at it, just for testing purposes.
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Hi Pat,
I've used the Rescue Media Builder to create Acronis Bootable Rescue Media and selected a USB drive as the destination - as for some reason I was unable to burn a rescue CD (I only have an external DVD burner, and it failed for both a CDR and DVD-RW). Should this suffice in order to kick off a full image restore from my incremental backups?
I'm just waiting for the latest validation to finish and I'll run a quick test restore to confirm integrity of the backups.
Cheers,
Chris
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The USB flash drive you created should suffice as it does not differ to that of a CD/DVD.
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Enchantech wrote:The USB flash drive you created should suffice as it does not differ to that of a CD/DVD.
NIce one, thank you. :)
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