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Cloning, TIB file Backup, etc.. Acronis Home Version 2014

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Cloning, TIB file Backup, etc.. Acronis Home Version 2014

 

I was cloning my hard drive in my laptop by removing stock hard drive from laptop, putting in spare drive to be cloned and then attaching the original laptop hard drive via USB and booting from Acornis USB boot key.

Great, worked fine.

After doing this every few months, the cable from the laptop to the hard drove broke and I had to order another one.

Okay fine...

 

Question:

1. When an SATA hard drive fails and you need to fromat a new one, I think I had issues from the laptop from the store, there was no utility and so I used Disk Management to partition and format the hard drive. Or did I used DiskPart and then format? I forget

What are the correct steps here? Hard drive from store could NOT be recognized until I did a few things but I forget.

 

2. More importantly.....

If I have a bootable originally laptop hard drive and if I were to lose a lot data or it will not boot but drive is fine for some reason--can I do the following:

Boot from USB Acronis Key

Attach my external enclosed hard drive via USB and boot from USB Acronis key and restore from all tib files for every partition and MBR and so on listed???

3. This is somewhat similar....

Run recovery USB key for my specific  laptop and get back to factory state-boot from this internal hard drive. Then attach an external USB enclosed hard drive (not a drive to put in laptop) to laptop via usb. Boot from Acronis USB key and restore all partitions and boot sector, MBR and every and all partitions to laptop hard drive??

****I do not want to lose ability to boot and want all data restored....

 

 

Thank you so very much

Peter

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Peter, there is a lot of information in both the ATIH 2014 User Guide and also the Acronis Knowledgebase on this subject.

See https://kb.acronis.com/content/46927 and https://kb.acronis.com/content/44746 for a starting point.

In principle, if you are replacing like for like for the 'failed' SATA drive, then there should be no need to do any preparation of the new drive, just install it in the computer where it will be the new system drive, boot from the Acronis Rescue media (CD or USB) with your external backup drive attached that contains the backup image to be recovered, then follow the steps in the Acronis GUI to recover whole disks & partitions or use Clone if the attached drive was copied from the failed drive rather than containing a backup image of the same.

If you are changing the type of SATA drive, i.e. upgrading to a larger capacity, that shouldn't matter unless you are also needing to change the drive partition format from MBR to GPT (needed for extended capacity drives over 2TB) - in that case then you cannot use the Clone option as this does not support changing from MBR to GPT, you would need to restore an image of the original drive from your external drive.

 

An answer to #2 and 3 (similar) would be very helpful

Thanks

Peter

Peter, it is still the same answer here.

For #3 there is no need to do a factory reset for a drive that you intend to overwrite with your Acronis backup image, that is just a redundant step - when you restore either the entire disk or individual partitions, Acronis will wipe out whatever is on the drive before perforing the restore.

So for both #2 or #3 you are at the same point, restoring your backup image wipes out whatever is present on the target drive you restore to.  The only time that this doesn't happen is when you choose to restore files & folders.  All disk & partition restores are destructive.

I recently purchased a PNY SSD CS1311 480 GB from Best Buy to replace my OCZ Vertex 90GB SSD that is in the red zone with ~ 5.5GB left of space.  I guess I don't really understand the SSD technology as much as I thought I did when I purchased the computer in December 2012.  I was recently bewildered to learn after purchasing a SSD in 2016 that I have old software i.e. AcronisTrue Image HD 2014.  I am already being urged to upgrade to the 2016 version to take full advantage of the new features.  This leads me to my question about the 2014 features and capabilities: I watched the instructional videos and noticed that the terminology used is "AcronisTrue Image HD 2014 copies the old drive to the new drive".  If AcronisTrue Image HD 2014 "copies" the contents i.e., the data to the new drive, then why do I need to use this software or upgrade to 2016?  If it only copies the data then why is the term "Clone" used in the description of the product?  I could copy my old SSD to my new SSD with windows explorer or via the command line, but it is my understanding that this methodology does not work properly because of the programs and applications are associated in the registry and do not perform as they did prior to copying.   I am not a System's Administrator expert, but I am a little better than the average home user. 

I noticed that my computer did not boot up initially because I thought I had to connect the new SSD into the old SATA SSD interface, but that was iincorrect; therefore, I returned each device (old SSD and DVD) back to their original SATA interfaces then my computer booted correctly.  Now I have my new SSD in the next available SATA interface.  My PNY SSD is not formatted because I want to clone it from my old SSD.  I have been researching for solutions for my dilemma.   My goal is to use my new PNY SSD whether it is cloned from my old SSD or Windows 7 is installed on to it.  I thought cloning would avoid the hassles of performing a complete reinstallation of Windows 7.  If I elect to reinstall Windows 7 then I won't have all the patches.  If I cannot clone the ISO image then what advantage is there with AcronisTrue Image 2014 HD? 

Do I need to make a Acronis bootable media first then attempt the clone method?  I have a ASRock Z77 Extreme 4 MOBO, i5 3570K CPU @ 3.4GHz with UEFI Software.  I thought I read that my AcronisTrue image 2014 HD does not work well with UEFI.  Is there an option to RAID the SSDs? or is that method imcompatible with SSDs?

I thank you for reading and commenting/recommending.  

 

 

Peter Pappaceno wrote:

I recently purchased a PNY SSD CS1311 480 GB from Best Buy to replace my OCZ Vertex 90GB SSD that is in the red zone with ~ 5.5GB left of space.  I guess I don't really understand the SSD technology as much as I thought I did when I purchased the computer in December 2012.  I was recently bewildered to learn after purchasing a SSD in 2016 that I have old software i.e. AcronisTrue Image HD 2014.  I am already being urged to upgrade to the 2016 version to take full advantage of the new features.  This leads me to my question about the 2014 features and capabilities: I watched the instructional videos and noticed that the terminology used is "AcronisTrue Image HD 2014 copies the old drive to the new drive".  If AcronisTrue Image HD 2014 "copies" the contents i.e., the data to the new drive, then why do I need to use this software or upgrade to 2016?  If it only copies the data then why is the term "Clone" used in the description of the product?  I could copy my old SSD to my new SSD with windows explorer or via the command line, but it is my understanding that this methodology does not work properly because of the programs and applications are associated in the registry and do not perform as they did prior to copying.   I am not a System's Administrator expert, but I am a little better than the average home user. 

I noticed that my computer did not boot up initially because I thought I had to connect the new SSD into the old SATA SSD interface, but that was iincorrect; therefore, I returned each device (old SSD and DVD) back to their original SATA interfaces then my computer booted correctly.  Now I have my new SSD in the next available SATA interface.  My PNY SSD is not formatted because I want to clone it from my old SSD.  I have been researching for solutions for my dilemma.   My goal is to use my new PNY SSD whether it is cloned from my old SSD or Windows 7 is installed on to it.  I thought cloning would avoid the hassles of performing a complete reinstallation of Windows 7.  If I elect to reinstall Windows 7 then I won't have all the patches.  If I cannot clone the ISO image then what advantage is there with AcronisTrue Image 2014 HD? 

Do I need to make a Acronis bootable media first then attempt the clone method?  I have a ASRock Z77 Extreme 4 MOBO, i5 3570K CPU @ 3.4GHz with UEFI Software.  I thought I read that my AcronisTrue image 2014 HD does not work well with UEFI.  Is there an option to RAID the SSDs? or is that method imcompatible with SSDs?

I thank you for reading and commenting/recommending.  

Peter Pappaceno, you should post your request in its own forum thread so as not to confuse the OPs original post.  It will get answered there, but it's just not good forum etiquetted to post your issue in another's post - even if they seem similar.