FULL backup from within Windows?
Can 2018 do a full back up from within Windows (doesn’t need to boot off anything) that could be restored to a new blank drive without losing anything?


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In reply to Dave, most definitely Yes -… by truwrikodrorow…

Second that - I just did this yesterday !
For a client of mine I went from a MS Surface Pro 4 to a Surface Pro (newer model, i5 instead of i7 chip).
Restored the image to his new machine from the bootable rescue media, booted the new machine, trundled for a while ("getting device ready") and then came up fine. I then downloaded the entire suite of drivers for this model from the MS - site and installed those - done ! All in all something like 2-3 hours ... and I had HIS environment running on new hardware.
Of course, if your new hardware is vastly different than your old one, you might still need the Universal Restore, but in my case this wasn't necessary ...
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Hi, New Acronis user here. Recently my SSD drive failed, All I had was my user data backed up. So I needed to go back to my recovery disk. Anyway, it took me a while to get back to the point of failure. So with Acronis when you say "assuming it is a Disk & Partitions type backup", does that mean in windows running Arconis, simply selecting the backup option, where your PC name appears, then select a destination (I selected a folder in an external drive), then proceed? I also created a rescue USB. So, If my SSD fails again, I can use he rescue USB to reboot, then use Arconis to point to the image backup in the folder on my external drive, acronis restores it to a new SSD, shutdown, remove the rescue USB, reboot and I am good to go? If yes, then when would I used the rescue media to do a "disk and partition" backup. Thanks.
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In reply to Second that - I just did… by truwrikodrorow…

Hi, New Acronis user here. I liked to make sure I understand the difference between a "Full Backup under Windows" and using the "Rescue USB" to perform a backup. Recently my SSD drive failed, All I had was my user data backed up. So I needed to go back to my recovery disk. Anyway, it took me a while to get back to the point of failure. So with Acronis when you say "assuming it is a Disk & Partitions type backup", does that mean in running Arconis under Windows, selecting the backup option, your PC name appears, then select a destination (I selected a folder in an external drive), then proceed? So, If my SSD fails again, I can use the rescue USB I created to reboot with Arconis, point to the image backup in the folder on my external drive, acronis will restore it to a new SSD, shutdown, remove the rescue USB, reboot and I am good to go? If yes, then when would I used the rescue media to do a "disk and partition" backup. Thanks.
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Frank, welcome to these User Forums.
One of the key functions of Acronis True Image is to enable a full OS & Applications plus Data recovery to a totally new disk drive in what is called a 'bare-metal' scenario, i.e. your OS drive has died completely but you have a full Disk & Partitions backup from when it was working. You then are able to boot your computer from the Acronis bootable Rescue Media (on CD/DVD or USB stick) and recover your full system back to a new replacement drive from the backup, then continue as if nothing had changed as of the date / time that the backup was created.
See forum topic:
[How to] recover an entire disk backup
which deals with doing that type of recovery.
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