Restoring Acronis Ture Image Home Windows 10 Pro backup to new computer with SSD and HHD drives.
Hello. I have an older home computer. It has Windows 10 Professional 64 bit installed on a 2TB HDD which was backed up with Acronis True Image Home. I have a new computer that came with a 128MB SSD (C-Drive), and a 2TB HDD (D-Drive). The Windows 10 operating system is pre-installed on the new computer’s SSD drive, and they have the HDD drive set up as a data drive. Is there a way to restore the Acronis backup to the new drive without losing data, or having to re-install my programs? The SSD drive does contain the “Program Files” folder. I know how to use Acronis to restore to another computer that has HDD without an SSD drive, as I have done it before. Thanks.


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I have a few comments to add to what Steve Smith advises.
It is possible to do a clone that excludes parts of the drive contents. I did this recently with ATI 2021 where I cloned a 3 TB SeagateMedia HDD to a 2 TB Seagate HDD. [The reason I did a clone was that the HDD has my Acronis Backup files in it and it would save a lot of messing around reconfiguring backup tasks. I excluded 1.5TB of other files from the cloning.] As it was a data drive I was able to do so from within Windows. To do so for a System drive would be more problematic. I would not recommend doing so. Things could go very wrong. I would do the clone to a spare HDD if you have one.
Things would be easier if much you currently have a separate data partition. If there is sufficient free space you could reduce the size of the C partition, crate a new partition and copy data to that partition. You may need to do subsequent resizing of the partitions followed by moving data. This could be a time consuming process.
Another possibility would be to create a files and folders backup of the data, then delete the data, and hope you end up with something which will fit on a 128 GB SSD. These day it is difficult to fit Windows and program files on such a small SSD.
Ian
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Steve Smith and IanL-S, thank both of you for your fast response.
Steve Smith - I will make a full backup of the new computer before I attempt to restore. The new computer has Windows 10 Professional 64 bit preinstalled on it.
The backup of the old computer contains 1.81TB of data. This data is on the same drive as the OS. This data will not fit on the 128GG SSD drive in the new computer. Thanks for the information regarding leaving around 20% free space on SSD drive.
The old computer has Legacy Bios
IanL-S; Thank you for the shared information. I will definitely keep this in mind!
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