Recovery Wizard
I am using the Trial Version (on a different machine) to solve a recovery issue. I created rescue media on a USB. Have gotten through Archive selection, Recovery Method and what to recover. Now I'm stuck on "select destination of Disk 1. Don't know what that means? In my case disk 1 is the attached hard drive where the backup file is located.

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By default here your original hard drive is presumed to be the target destination for your recovery. If you are restoring to a new disk then you would have to select the new disk.
It is recommended that disks be assigned unique labels/names so that knowing which disks is which is much easier.
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Continuing to have restore problems on my other laptop. The Acronis back up file I'm using is good, nearly 95Gig. Yet what I'm doing with the wizard results in a completed operation in less than 10 minutes. No doubt I procedurally did it wrong. Now the PC will no longer boot using its hard drive. Acronis wizard does boot from flash drive.Disk 1 shows NTFS (OS) (C) 88.16 GB ---Next is Track 0?? Next is EFI System Partition 300 MB next is Recovery Partition 900 MB --next is Recovery Partition 350 MB --next is None (unlabeled) 3.953 GB --last is Recovery Partition 20.01 GB.
Don't know what they all are? Should I just select Disk 1 and let the 7 lines below auto check?
Also should I reformat the Laptops hard drive. Would that make it easier to restore from the backup file? Thank you
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Not knowing exactly what you are looking at it is hard to give advice as it requires assumptions to be made which are never a good thing.
When restoring a full disk backup file it is best to select all partitions contained in the backup file. The application will wipe the destination drive of data before coping the backup data to the selected destination drive. Beyond that I cannot in good conscience offer anything further as I simply have nothing to base any instruction on.
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Thank you, I understand. I took another swing at it this morning with Linux based recovery media. I got much further along. An 8 operation recovery summary was shown and after selecting proceed I think it may be stuck?? The blue clock is not moving?? Should it be??
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The blue clock doesn't move, it is just an icon.
Any recovery operation will take some time so please give it some but look for disk activity on any of the drives involved if there are indicator LED's to show this.
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OK thnx. I've started the recovery (I hope) at 10:25 AM local. We shall see. One thing I didn't get was an error message on an earlier attempt that said " unable to lock the disk, boot from Linux based media. So I changed it to Linux and now I don't get the error.
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Pretty sure the Recovery Wizard has stopped functioning and never started the first operation ( clearing Hard Disk). The mouse pointer still functions, the scroll bar does not, and there is no indication that the laptops hard drive is doing anything. No lights blinking.
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Not sure if it is relevant here, but recent builds of the Linux Recovery Media have taken a dislike to systems with AMD CPU.
Ian
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