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I have a backup of Windows 7 based system. 4 ssd disk and 1 hard disk, non  ssd( 2 Tb). When i did a backup , i chiose every hard disk, the non ssd was empty. Now i change this non ssd hard disk with one bigger. When i restore all backup how i can do with this hardware changed?

i try but a lot of problem?

thanks

Alberto

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Would you please confirm that the source drives (ones being backed up) are the 3 SSD and that the backup location (where the backups are stored) is the mechanical drive.

Would you also explain the process by which you moved the backups to the larger mechanical HDD. You should move them from within ATI and not using Explorer or other file manager as ATI will not recognise the location.

Ian

IanL-S wrote:

Would you please confirm that the source drives (ones being backed up) are the 3 SSD and that the backup location (where the backups are stored) is the mechanical drive.

Would you also explain the process by which you moved the backups to the larger mechanical HDD. You should move them from within ATI and not using Explorer or other file manager as ATI will not recognise the location.

Ian

thanks, the backup is on esternal drive, the boot disk is an ssd, i have Teo more ssd and a meccanica l drive. When i make a backup i include in the backup, mechanical drive also, now i change this mechanical drive with on bigger. The mechanical dri was empty. I restore everything, and i chiose destination of older mechanical, new, but recognise only 2 Tb  of older and not 3tb of new.

Alberto, I would recommend making separate backups of each of your disk drives (SSD's or HDD's) as this will make any recovery a far more simpler process, by only needing to identify and use one backup image to recover a single drive.

If you have any drives larger than 2TB, this will require UEFI / GPT to use the full capacity of such drives.

If your computer is still using Legacy / MBR it does not support drives larger than 2TB.

See KB 59776: Acronis True Image: only 2 TB of space are available on a disk larger than 2 TB after disk cloning or backup restoration

Yes, but i have a large backup,  1 tb, of my disk, wich include also a mechanical empty drive, so how i can restore this, if i have change my mechanical disk. It ask about 2 tb drive, but new is 3 tb?

Can i restore and choose location  for hard drive that is not in my computer, the new hard drive?

Sorry, but technical english, is just little difficult for me

Alberto, you are welcome to write in your own native language and we can use Google translate to understand what you say.

I would ask that we start again here and ask you to describe how your computer is setup?

What are each of your disk drives used for, and how are these connected, i.e. are they internal SATA drives, external drives etc?

Next, is your computer working correctly as it is today?  Or do you have a problem with one of your disk drives?

Finally, what exactly are you wanting to do here?
From what has been written so far, it sounds like you are wanting to change one HDD drive to a larger HDD drive, but is this HDD drive used for data, or is it used to stored backups etc?

The more information you can provide, the better we will understand this topic and be able to try to help you.

yes, i change  a mechanical hard drive to a bigger, and it's only for data.the computer work fine, backup is on external usb drive, and 3 ssd, internal sata, 1 for system and two for program.

i try 2 day ago to restore backup, but in new mechanical drive, i see only 2 tb of older, i'd like to see all 3tb in one partition.

thanks

ps, in a other  ssd drive i have w10. the big backup is for w7

thanks

Alberto, 2TB is a limit for Legacy BIOS computers because of using MBR partitioning.  UEFI does not use MBR but uses GPT partitioning instead which allows for very much larger drive sizes.

See webpage:  whats-the-difference-between-gpt-and-mbr-when-partitioning-a-drive/

If your new HDD is used for data only (not for booting the OS), then you can partition the drive as GPT and this will still be readable from a Legacy Windows OS.

So i can restore backup with change of disk, converte new hard drive in gpt, and i can restore old 2tb drive on new?

thanks

What type of backup do you have of the old 2TB drive?

Is this a Disk & Partitions backup - if so, it will restore as MBR not GPT?

Is this a Files & Folders backup - if so, you can prepare the new larger drive as GPT, then restore your files and folders to it without changing the drive from GPT?

If the old 2TB drive is still working ok, then you could make a new Files & Folders backup of the contents to recover to the new drive.

The old disk is not in my computer, the new one is Inside. How i can se the tipe of backup?

thank

Does your old 2TB disk still have all your data stored on it?

Can you connect that old 2TB drive to your computer externally via a USB adaptor or dock?

Alberto, if the old drive was empty and the backup of that drive was also when it was empty, then I do not understand what you are trying to restore here?

Is thai im not so good with software, so i uncheck this hard drive when i restore a backup, convert disk in gpt and After i can sue all 3 Tb,

Alberto, why do you need to do a restore here if all your other drives are working correctly?

If you just want to use the full 3TB capacity of your new drive, then you just need to prepare it to be GPT and format it as NTFS.

If you want to do this using Acronis True Image, then you can use the Tools option to 'Add new disk' then select the new 3TB drive and select to use GPT as the partition scheme.

See the ATI 2020 User Guide for 'Add new disk'

In the main ATI GUI - select Tools then click on All tools, which will open a new Window where you can then launch the 'Add new disk' tool.

Alberto, glad to have been able to help, hope all goes well from here in.