Image.dd & Acronis

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Hi all,

Well, I have a image.dd (bytes-by-bytes copy) which contains 3 partitions of a hard drive Toshiba from a laptop. Few days after the hard drive dies. Now I have bought the same hard drive but how to restore without reinstalling everything. I thought of that, tell me if it's ok:

1/ Mount the image.dd on my PC (with FTKimager) and with acronis, make a backup of the disk which will be save on a external drive & create a boot cd too.
2/Put the new hard drive into the laptop which is connected to an external hard drive, boot on whith boot cd, and restore by pointing to the backup file created by Acronis.

Is it correct ??

Regards,

Fri, 10/21/2011 - 13:23
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I would think it would work if TI will see the mounted image as a valid source.

Have you considered booting to a Live Linux CD and use 'dd' to copy the image.dd file to the new drive? This is what I would try first. It should work if the image you have is actually a byte-for-byte copy starting with sector 0. Just be careful with 'dd' as you can easily wipe something out. Hopefully, you have a backup of your image.dd file.

Fri, 10/21/2011 - 16:43