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My hard drive is failing, can I restore my system onto a new internal hard drive???

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I don't have much time before this hard drive dies (SMART gives notice when booting, and the Acronis Drive Monitor agrees)..........can I buy a new hard drive and restore my system using acronis recovery??? I have restored this computer to earlier times before and it worked great!! Thanks, Laurie

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Oh yeah, I have True Image Home 2010 and am using Nonstop Backups..........XP service pack 3

Just wondering if this is possible or feasible...........I have a lot of programs I want to keep...................please let me know what you think

Absolutely - the is exactly the kind of thing True Image is designed for! I'm not sure that non-stop backup creates a restorable image, (someone else please comment), but I know that if you create a FULL DISK BACKUP you'll be good to go. When you restore, check the option to restore MBR and track 0.

Thank you Phillip, after posting that question I have found so much great info........thanks for reminding me to restore the MBR............I am good to go for now, have found lots of places to look for answers........Laurie