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100% full disk backup which can be recovered to a NEW disk ?

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Hallo,

I have two disks in my new laptop, an ssd + hdd.

It's an advanced setup, the ssd actually has two windows 10 installs, and the hdd has some critical partitions aswell.

I want to make a 100% full image of both these disks so if one ever fails, I can recover to a NEW disk and still be able to boot my two windows 10 installs.

This laptop also has a recovery option using f11 on boot, I want this to keep working aswell.

This option allows me to recover windows to factory default when needed. It does not protect me from a faulty disk, that's why I need this kind of complete backup.

So it needs to include everything, MBR, ...

How do I make this kind of backup in acronis true image 2018 ?

And can you confirm when I recover this acronis backup to a brand new disk, everything will work exactly as it was ? Dual boot windows, f11 option still avaible, etc

Thank you

David

 

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David, welcome to these User Forums.

ATI 2018 can do what you ask and can do so either as 2 separate backups, one for the SSD and one for the HDD, where all partitions etc are captured, or you can use the option for 'Entire PC' which will capture both the SSD and HDD in a single backup image file.

My personal preference is to take the first option, i.e. do a Disk & Partitions backup of each individual drive, so that should that drive need to be recovered, the process is as simple as possible.

The SSD backup would capture both your dual-boot Windows 10 OS's as well as the Factory restore partition etc provided that you select the drive at the top Disk option box - this will select all further partitions on the disk.  The same applies to the HDD if this has more than one partition.

You should also create and test the Acronis bootable Rescue Media for ATI 2018 as this will be your means of recovering your backup image(s) in the event of a disk failure / replacement.

As your laptop uses the F11 key on boot for doing a factory recovery, then I would advise against enabling the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager (ASRM) feature as this also uses the F11 key.  ASRM uses a Linux Kernel boot OS to load a standalone ATI environment for recovery but this may not have all the device driver support needed for your laptop if it uses such as RAID for the drives.  

The 'Simple' Acronis Rescue Media in ATI 2018 now defaults to using the Windows RE (Recovery Environment) from the laptop to boot into the standaone ATI environment where this should have all the drivers required by your laptop.  The media can be created on DVD or a USB stick (max 32GB size).