Has anyone here done a restore using the Acronis Recovery Disk?
If so - what should I be seeing and when?
Right now, the status bar is not moving, and I'm on stage 4 of 4
It's been about 45 minutes, and the status bar hasn't moved, but I do see disk activity - not a lot, but definitely some on the external drive that holds that backup image

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Booting from the rescue disk, as partition cannot boot
This is the first restore, so hard to judge
Disk is going, but really slowly - just barely flickering.
We are talking 350GB+ over a USB 2.0 connection
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Suggest you respond only this posting since it is a duplication.
Is the 350GB actual data or just the size of disk?
Is the disk new or old? If the disk has a lot of bad sectors, that will make the restore much longer with lessor chance of success.
Any progress is better than no progress.
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It's 350GB worth of data, the disk is 600GB
Pretty new disk - came with HP system.
The backup target is a 1TB full to the gills with backup, which may be the problem.
I'm also not looking forward to doing this again, with the newer backup on another external disk. Long story on that one. I'm also going to have to restore the non-stop backup disk too, which is USB, but connected through a bay (its a LITTLE faster, but not by much)'
And then after this, back up, and try to solve the problem I had in the first place - trying to migrate the boot and windows directories to an 80GB SSD
Wish me luck and thanks for helping me here!
--mark
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OK - update: it finally gave me a prediction of 1 day, 22 hours for restore.
So I killed it
I decided to just go for my original plan that I had before I wonked everything up
- removed all disks except 80GB SSD
- Did a restore image from the boot sector (that was quick)
- Now doing a File restore of Windows that I had done earlier. it leaves out all collections, with plans to restore those to other internal disks later.
- Hopefully after, it will boot, and I can start restoring media files and program files
In the meantime I am getting acquainted with Ubuntu One Music Shop, which beats iTunes any day!
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Good luck but I have reservations that it will not. But even if it does, in the long run, I believe you will be chasing problems. Even if successful, you stsill have all your programs to reinstall. At this point in time, I would recommend that you use your Windows installation CD and install a completely fresh copy onto the SSD. I do not believe it will take much more time and in the long run, it may save you time by not having to troubelshoot so much.
Because of the smaller 80GB capacity, you may end up installing some of your programs on the a larger data drive but do not do that with TrueImage. If you install TrueImage, install it solely on the drive C. I am assuming that you will put your most of your media files also onto a larger data drive.
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Mark - I agree with GroverH and highly suspect your recover will not work. Also in that the first attempt was taking so long I suspect that you also have HD issues. I never put a drive into production without first running both SpinRite (level 4) and Hard Disk Sentinel (Reinitialize disk surface) test (in that order) on all of my drives. BTW I currently have about 70 hard drives. I recently sent four failed drives to Seagate, as soon as the returned drives arrived I started testing, so far I've tested two drives and one is bad. About four months ago I purchased two WD 2TB drives ran them through my test and then put them in production, with in 1 month Hard Disk Sentinel reported major problems with the drives and reduced the health of the drives to 6% & 5%. Since then I've run extensive test on both drives, numerous issues have been fixed and per the test the drives are OK. I do have them in a test production environment and I monitor them closely. Because the test can take a long time to run I have allocated one system just for HD testing and frequently it is running 24x7 for weeks.
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Mark - FYI I just completed a recovery on my Lenovo W700 using the recovery disk (2010 build 6597) and a TIB file that was on a eSATA drive and it was successful.
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I tried that method and the Windows Recovery disk would not recover to a drive smaller than the one it was installed on.
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I've never recovered to a smaller drive but I did see the option. I've always recovered to a drive of the same size or larger. In the near future I may install a SSD drive in my desktop and at that time I will attempt to recover to a smaller drive.
Did you use 2011 build 6597? I think this is the current build.
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Cloning or restoring to a smaller disk has worked in the past providing the used space will fit on the smaller drive and still have ample free space on the smaller drive. Some of my guides illustrated this can be successful.
If you can get your old drive C used space down to around 50GB, restoring or cloning might work moving to a 80GB disk from a 320GB disk, etc. It might also help to defrag the used space prior to creating a backup. Restoring from a backup seems to work better than the cloning procedure.
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