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Restore with operating system on new hard disk

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I am using Acronis 2011 on a Win 7 /64 bit Dell computer. Originally when I purchased the computer it was loaded with Vista 64. A few months after I upgraded to Win 7/64. I am having problems with my hard disk so Dell just sent me a replacement which has Vista 64 loaded on the replacement drive. My system backup was made with Win 7 loaded. When I restore My System, will Acronis overwrite Vista or will I have 2 operating systems loaded on my C: drive.

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If your system backup was made before you had problems with your hard disk and contains all the partitions of your disk, you are fine.
Use the Acronis recovery CD to restore the image on your new disk after you have installed it.
Make sure you select to recover all partitions and the MBR & tracks 0 + disk signature.