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Need Help with Acronis True Image 2011

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Hello there, I am using Acronis True Image 2011 trial version to see if it works. It does the backup fine but restore i am having a problem with.

1. I am backing up Disk 0 Partition 1 System Reserved Disk 0 Partition 2 C:\ Disk 0 Partition 3 these all above is on a pc i am cloning.

2. I want to clone this to another pc which has exact same specs as the above pc nothing is different.

3. When i try to restore i choose in new pc. I select all the things of Disk 1 from backup .tib file Example: Restore from Disk 1 checked Disk 0 Partiton 1 System Reserved checked Disk 0 Partition 2 checked Disk 0 Partiton 3 checked Track 0 and MBR checked once this is finished i am choosing where to put this all. so what i did was formatted the new pc and made it same disk structure as pc i am cloning from.

The only problem i am facing is that whenever i create same partitions System Reserved come as C:\ but in pc i am cloning from System Reserved doesnt have a drive letter.

Example:

Cloned PC (original pc)
Disk 0 Partiton 1 System Reserved no drive letter
Disk 0 Partiton 2 C:\
Disk 0 Partiton 3 D:\

New PC
Disk 0 Partiton 1 System Reserved C:\
Disk 0 Partition 2 D:\
Disk 0 Partiton 3 E:\

Also i have tried checking the Restore Disk Signature and tried without Disk Signature. the restore is successful all the time. When it restarts Windows 7 Logo appears and blue screen and it restarts again.

I dont know what i am doing wrong here can anyone please help me here.

Thanks

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Hardik,

Are you selecting each partition by itself or by ticking the Disk 0 tick box?

Are you restoring from the rescue CD or from within Windows?

If you mount the image how do the partitions show up?

when i mount the image it shows like this

Disk 1 with a check box
Disk 0 Partition 1 System Reserved
Disk 0 Partition 2
Disk 0 Parition 3
Track 0 and MBR

I Select all of them and then click next and select the destination for each of them.

Hardik Shah wrote:

is Disk cloning available in Free Trial of Disk Director 11?

Thanks

Yes, but only for 100MB as far as I know.

Whether Migrate Easy trial has the same restriction I'm not sure, but cloning can be riskier if you make the mistake of wiping the original drive before checking the new drive works.

I think it would be better to see if your problem with TIH can be sorted out first.

You didn't say in post #4 if the partitions show up correctly, with their correct names and if the contents seem intact.

I think your problem might be that you are allocating the partitions manually.

You list a disk 1 and a disk 0 are these both internal drives?

If as by the looks of it Disk 0 is your main drive, have you tried to recover it by checking just the disk 0 box?

What do you mean by 'and select the destination for all of them'?

Have you given your partitions names, Linux doesn't show the drive letters in the same order as Windows, so names are better as they don't change.

Any chance of you being able to post some screen snips of what the image looks like in your tasks, and when mounted?

OK confused myself here.

Just to get straight.

Cloning = 1 complete disk to another complete disk - no way of selecting partitions, no images required, no mounting available as no image is made.

Recovering an image - complete disks or individual partitions can be restored.

Is the disk you are either cloning or recovering to the same size, smaller or larger?

TIH may be assigning a drive letter to the system reserved position because this is marked as active.

Have you read pages 78-80 of the manual if trying to recover an image?