Skip to main content

How to restore a backup image to a new, external drive

Thread solved

I feel like a moron this morning, but I just cannot figure this out.  It seems like a trivial thing that should be easy, but I just cannot figure this out.  (Also, I avoid Acronis like the plague because I've always found it extremely confusing and difficult to use, so I have no [good] experiences with it.)

I have a backup (in a .tib file) that someone else made about five years ago.  I need to restore that image to a new drive that is connected to my (Windows 10) machine with a USB dock.  Once the image is restored, I will swap the drive with the current drive in the target machine.

It appears that ATI2018 only wants to restore images directly to my boot drive, which is ABSOLUTELY NOT what I need to do, but I cannot find any way to change the target drive.

0 Users found this helpful

Steven, the best recommendations that I can offer to you are as follows:

Create the Acronis bootable rescue media for ATI 2018 on your Windows 10 computer using either a USB stick or a DVD, then test whether this will boot your target computer?

If the rescue media can boot successfully on the target computer, then do the .TIB restore directly on that computer using the rescue media and to the new drive.

The main reasons for this recommendation is because there is a strong possibility that your Windows 10 computer and the target computer could use different BIOS boot modes, i.e. Win 10 could be a UEFI BIOS system using GPT for its drives, and the other computer could be a Legacy BIOS system using MBR for drives.  If you do this restore on the Win 10 computer, it will automatically convert the .TIB restored drive from MBR to GPT to match that host system.

Doing the restore on the target machine will use the correct mode required for that machine.

KB 60820: Acronis True Image 2018: how to create bootable media

KB 59877: Acronis True Image: how to distinguish between UEFI and Legacy BIOS boot modes of Acronis Bootable Media

See KB 60131: Acronis True Image 2018: how to restore your computer with WinPE-based or WinRE-based media