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I am in the actuall process of restoring my entire backup onto a new hard drive. I am in the restore wizard. I am at the point where it asks select the items to restore. there are two boxes to check. NTFS which i have checked and then one that says MBR and track 0. Should both be checked before I proceed...I don't want to mess this up

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well I checked both and am now at the screen that says specify restore settings of partition C
I can't go any further except to click on the highlighted new location. When I do this it asks me to accept my external hard drive as that location. Is this right? I thought the new location was going to be the new HD I put into my laptop...oops there is one below that that says unalocated too. I am unsure at this point....should I highlight the unallocated one which appears to be my new drive and hit accept?

the only question I think I have left before hitting proceed is that on the "specify restore settings of particion C" page it says at the bottom partition size 220.2 GB and free space after 12.83. The size of the back up is only 75 GB where is all the other information coming from???

Is the new drive larger than the old drive? In your other thread, you said you were replacing the existing drive with the same size drive. Did that change? Or are you saying that the filesize of the TIB file is 75GB?

If the drives are the same size, I think you should be okay to proceed.

Hi MudCrab!
Yes, nothing has changed. I was freaking out because the size of my backup was only 41.5 GB in the .tib format and like 75GB in the actual but it said i would only have like 12.5 free space after the restore on a 250 GB drive. I didn't make any sense. I went to the chat support and the guy said that is because of how it is read. So I am in the process and about 98% complete at this point. I plan on removing the bootable disk and the external HD before reboot if possible. Is that how it should be done? any comments or further advice?

Thanks

That's correct. After the restore has finished, remove the TI bootable media, disconnect the external drive, exit TI, and reboot.

You may want to check the BIOS boot order and make sure it's correct for the new drive.

I'll be...I've got my desktop back and it installed my device drivers and I am currently rebooting. I think it's going to work! Alright, where is the testimonials section :)

Yup, I have returned to the time of my last backup only with a new hard drive. WOW!

Next question. I have read nothing but problems with 2010 should I just download the latest build of 2009 and rebackup everything on my external?

What build of TI 2009 are you using?

If it's one of the "good" builds, you may want to keep it if it works. No harm in downloading the latest build and keeping it handy, though.

I would make sure everything is working correctly before getting rid of the original backup image (the one you restored). If you have room on the external for another Full image, go ahead and make one.

Hmmmm, "good" builds aye? I have 9796 I hope that's a good one. It seems to have worked without fail. I am very happy at this moment in time ;)

If 9,796 is working good, I would stick with it (just my personal opinion). However, I would download the 9,809 installer and the current Bootable Media ISO from you account.

Mike

Good to hear it worked OK