Recover image to new empty disk - No partition location
Hi, we just received a new disk from Dell for one of our Latitude 2120, but when i start up in Acronis Recovery and choose image and partitions I want to recover, no disk is showing at stage : Settings of Partition...
When i choose new location at "Partition location (required)", it says; No items to display.
I have checked in BIOS if it is detected there, just to check that I inserted the new disk completely, and it does show up in BIOS. I also ran a quick disk test, and no bad blocks were detected.
Is this a common problem? Does anyone know what the problem is? And if there is a fix for this?
I have tried with 3 different USB-sticks, but without luck.
Thanks In Advance!
-André
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Check this link. If the new disk is the same size as old disk, you should be able to a disk option restore to a blank unformatted disk as described in item 2 at the link. Item #1 would also work.
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/29618
I assume that the backup you are attempting to recover is a full backup of all partitions on the old disk.
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Thanks for both replies!
Yeah, the disk showed up after I tried both your soloutions, but when I recovered the image to the disk afterwards... I got message about BootMGR was missing, even if i selected to recover whole disk and disk signature. I have not experienced this earlier with any of the 50 machines of same model using Acronis.
Then i booted up to the windows repair cd, and opened up cmd and ran the commands: bootrec.exe /fixmbr, bootrec.exe /fixboot, bootrec.exe /rebuildbcd, but that didn't fix it.
Since I'm in a bit of a hurry, i ended up cloning the 2120 master with Norton Ghost BartPe, and recover that image to the target.
Is there a reason to why I got BOOTMGR missing with Acronis... if this happens another time, how may I prevent this from happening, or how do i fix the problem?
-André
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My best guess is that the backup did not contain the boot partition and was not restored---but that is only a guess. I am not a technician so cannot provide a definitive answer. Maybe some of the other volunteers will provide more comments. I'm glad you got it working.
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