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Acronis 2011 Partition vs. Disk bakup….and where do you go to “restore”??

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So I have these backups (disk?) like SN300340.tid and then I have what I am guessing are “partition” backups. But my SN* backup is like 144GB and the “partition backup” like 260GB.
So drive c: gets flaky tonight. I have these two images and I don’t know the difference and wonder what the size difference is about. I put on a new (enterprise-bigger than the old one) disk, formatted it and now would like to do one of two things. (1) clone C: to the new drive or/and (2) “restore” a “backup” to the new drive.
But which image would I restore?
And for the life of me, when I run Acronis I see no place to do a clone or a restore of a stored image/file to a disk --- is this what the “boot-able” cd is about?
Thank you

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David,
Not knowing what type backups you have, we can only offer general comments.

Look at link #3 below and especially item #1 would be most logical or possibly item #2 within that link. Item 3 would not apply as you are creating a new disk via the recovery method.