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TI 2016 & New Hybrid Drive - Can I restore boot drive to new Hybrid drive?

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Just bought a Seagate FireCuda Gaming SSHD 2TB. I was intending to do a "semi clean install of Windows 10" using a full Acronis backup I made back in 2015. The backup from a 2TB drive has windows 10 and Acronis only, nothing else. Thought this would be easy until I started to read some posts here about hybrid drives and problems restoring. Wish I had read those first before I bought it.

Sounds like if the drive shows as a single drive Acronis will be able to restore, if it shows as two drives then it will not work. Is that correct?

Do you know if the FireCuda presents as a single drive?

If the drive shows as a single drive, what is your advice about restoring the old Windows 10 boot backup. I have the backups on my 2TB drive E:  --- Do I replace my C: drive with the new FireCuda and boot from the Rescue Media disk to restore back to C: drive (now the FireCuda)? One of the Acronis reps said he has hybrid drives and used Acronis to restore. Please let me know how you did it if see this post and are the one who said that.

Thanks for your help.

Windows 10 64 bit, 16 gig memory, C:boot 2TB, D:Data 1TB & E: Acronis Backups 2TB, drives. Acronis 2016 with latest update, rescue media dvd made.

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Steve, welcome to these User Forums.

The first question is the one you have already asked: Does the FireCuda present as a single drive?  where the only way to know the answer to this is to connect the drive to a computer and look at the drive in Windows Disk Management or a Partition Manager program.

Older hybrid drives did present as 2 separate drives, where there was a small SSD drive coupled with a larger HDD spinning drive.  Newer hybrid drives present as a single drive where the electronics / firmware on the drive handle to different technologies coupled together inside the drive housing.

I am currently using a Dell laptop with a Seagate 1TB hybrid drive installed (ST1000LM014-1EJ164) that I bought a couple of years ago and was able to successfully migrate from a smaller HDD to using Acronis True Image 2016 to Backup & Restore the OS.

I would expect that this new FireCuda hybrid drive would present as a single drive.  If it does, then you can follow the steps that you have outline in your post above, but when booting from the Acronis Rescue Media please ensure that you use the same boot method as used by your Windows OS.  See webpage: Check if your PC uses UEFI or BIOS to verify the boot method needed.

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Steve

Thanks, I'll let you all know how it goes. Might be useful information for those who may want a Seagate FireCuda Gaming SSHD 2TB Internal Hard Drive ST2000DX002. My system uses an Asus P8-P67 Deluxe MB which does use UEFI boot. When I made the Acronis rescue disk I assumed it would make the same kind of boot. If I'm wrong please let me know, otherwise thanks for your guidance and will get back to you with the results of my restore effort.

Steve, if your Asus BIOS is configured for UEFI Only then that should be the only mode in which the Rescue Media can boot, but if it is configured to allow Legacy / CSM as well as UEFI, then you may see two options for each boot device, one for the Legacy boot option, the second for EFI/UEFI boot option.

Restored my original Windows 10 Acronis backup to new 2TB Firecuda with little difficulty. Had to initialize and format the drive  as a primary drive first.  Then had to make sure it could be seen in windows by giving a drive letter and label. Once I new the new drive could be seen by the system, I preplaced my original boot drive with the new Fircecude and booted from the Acronis rescue disk.

Restore was short and easy. Restarted, went to BIOS and selected the new drive as the boot drive, and BOOM, I'm back in 2015 with the new Windows 10. Updating Windows 10 took longer than restoring the drive.

So - Yes Seagate 2TB Firecuda 3.5" SSHD will work with Acronis TI

Thanks for your help Steve

Steve, always great to get positive feedback and hear good news.  Thanks for your feedback.