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I am true image 2015. I needed to replace my hard drive since I had strong indications it was near failing.
I couldn't a backup with the windows version of the program so used the acronis boot disk. I installed the new drive, the bios detected the new drive, but acronis wouldn't until I used a Win 10 boot disk to install Win 10. Then I attempted to recovery my backup version, but acronis wouldn't recognize the usb drive the backup was on. Even after I finally got some recovery but windows reported problems and gave me the blue screen of death. I am very disappointed. I thought I could install a new hard drive and recover my system.
Comments please.
thanks,


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I now have some further thoughts. I assumed that if i installed a new primary hard drive, and if the bios recognized the drive and its size, the Acronis program would partition the new drive and copy the previous drive image to the new hardware. It looks like doing that caused partitions on the drive and I couldn't install the image. Besides, the Acronis boot program could not find the acronis windows backup since it was on a usb drive that was not recognized. Bottom line, it looks like my assumptions were incorrect
I got a Windows 10 install disk, and reset the disk partitions during the install to unallocated and was finally able to get Windows 10 on the new disk. I got an error, and used the repair option to get to windows restore and restored a windows backup image to the drive.
Any comment on my Acronis assumptions?
Thanks,
Larry Drobnitch
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Hi Larry,
If you backup an entire disk (with all paritions), when you restore the entire disk, it will automatically create those partiions and restore the content that's on them as well. This is how dull disk backup and recovery is designed to work. I'm not sure what you mean by it creating paritions and then not being able to install the image - let the software do all of the paritioning for you. Take a disk backup - restore a disk backup - it's that simple. If you try to manually parition and move things around, you're just making it harder. However, at some point if you know it's just your OS you want to restore (C: parition), then, by all means, restore just the C: parition over the existing C: parition. To keep it simple though, just do a disk backup and a disk recovery.
There is a caveat to restoring though and the same applies to Windows installers. How you start the recovery media makes a difference. In the past, PC's were simple as they were all using legacy/bios so there was nothign to think about, just backup and restore. However, most new PC's are UEFI and/or can support legacy CSM (some enabled by default, some need to be enabled in the bios along with turning secure boot off). Long story short, you should boot your rescue media to match how the OS image was. If the OS was UEFI/GPT and you're restoring it, make sure to boot the rescue media in UEFI mode. If the original OS was legacy/bios then make sure you boot the rescue media in legacy/Bios. Each motherboard (bios/firmware) is different so this part is up to you to determine and make sure you're booting the media correctly. Check out the screenshots from this post though, as it should help you identify the different boot types and how they look... the exact look will vary from system to system though.
https://forum.acronis.com/forum/121829#comment-378318
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