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Cannot Recover The Selected Disk - Acronis True Image 2015 for PC

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Cannot Recover The Selected Disk issue, i have an image of a disk approx 80gb, but when i try to restore it to a drive 500gb, it just shows red cross and this message

using Acronis True Image 2015 for PC

the image is on my C drive internal and im restoring to a 500gb SATA drive connected via USB external

ive added the backup and trying to restore

any ideas how i can restore to this drive?

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John, thank you for raising a separate new topic for this problem.

Please can you provide more information about the destination drive, ideally a screen shot taken from Windows Disk Management showing details of the disk, as we still do not have sufficient information to advise why this drive cannot be selected.

Also, you're in the older forum, but seem to be using a newer version (2015 or newer).  2015 and newer typically cannot restore older backups from Acronis through the Windows application.  You can try the offline recovery media for the version you have installed and that may work better, or to ensure restore compoatibility, use the recovery media that matches the version of Acronis that was used to create the backup originally.

1689: Backup Archive Compatibility Across Different Product Versions

Acronis True Image 2017, Acronis True Image Subscription
on Windows

backups of Windows computers created with: 
Acronis True Image 2016, Acronis True Image Cloud (Release 2016) 
Acronis True Image 2015

Acronis True Image 2016, Acronis True Image Cloud (Release 2016) 
on Windows

backups of Windows computers created with: 
Acronis True Image 2016, Acronis True Image Cloud (Release 2016) 
Acronis True Image 2015 
Acronis True Image 2014 
True Image 2013 by Acronis

Acronis True Image 2015 Acronis True Image 2015 (except for Acronis True Image 2015 for Mac 
and Acronis True Image for Mac) 
Acronis True Image 2014 
True Image 2013 by Acronis 
Acronis True Image Home 2012* 
Acronis True Image Home 2011*
Acronis True Image Home 2010* 
Acronis True Image Home 2009*
Acronis True Image Home 11* 
Acronis True Image 2014 Acronis True Image 2014 
True Image 2013 by Acronis 
Acronis True Image Home 2012* 
Acronis True Image Home 2011*
Acronis True Image Home 2010* 
Acronis True Image Home 2009*
Acronis True Image Home 11* 

* (!) Backups can only be restored. Other operations can be limited. It is necessary to create a new backup plan / archive.

(!) Acronis does not guarantee forward compatibility. Backups created with a newer build/version of the product may not be supported by older builds/versions. For example, restoring a backup created with Acronis True Image Build 8163 may fail with Acronis True Image Build 8076, or restoring a backup created with Acronis True Image Home 2011 may fail with Acronis True Image Home 2010.

(!) Acronis guarantees backup compatibility for different Acronis backup products within the same version. E.g. Acronis Backup Advanced 11.5 for Linux Server will work with backups created by Acronis Backup Advanced 11.5 for PC.

(!) Acronis Snap Deploy works only with images of the whole hard disk.

(!) Backups created with Acronis Recovery for MS SQL Server are not compatible with Acronis Backup Advanced 11.5 for SQL (Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 for MS SQL Server).