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Restore to same size hard drive fails - not enough space?

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I am replacing a laptop so I took a disk image and am now trying to restore it. I do this all the time with my other machines, and it normally works fine. The two drives are identical (same size, just different SNs). The backup image is good, because I can mount it fine and access data, etc. However, when I select it as the destination (see attached screen shot), I get the following error: There is insufficient space in the recovery destination. The new drive is blank, but I tried formatting it too. I continue to get the misleading error that there is not enough space. Any ideas?

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Always do the restores from the recovery CD. Remember that the recovery CD will show you drive letters that are different from Windows. Do not attempt to correct this. This is just Linux behavior versus Windows behavior and doesn't affect the quality of the restore. Just make sure you select the right source and destination looking at disk/partitions labels, size, etc.

It does the same thing from the recovery CD - the destination drive is greyed out. Again, it is a drive of the same size (as in the attached image) and is connected via a USB adapter that I've used to restore drives all the time. Acronis keeps saying the drive cannot be used, but it has plenty of space and is brand new. I even went through the Acronis drive utilities to "Add new disk", and initialized it, etc. Please advise.

Matt,

Try this:
- restore each partition separately, first the dell partition, then the recovery partition, then the system partition, finally the MBR+Track0 and disk signature,
- no need to reboot inbetween,
- no change in size or drive letters.

Does this make the recovery possible?

Matt,

What if you don't restore the dell partitions?

The problem you are experiencing is not new. In fact, I had it recently on restoring a dell image. I ended up not recovering the dell partitions and it worked.

Yes, I've tried restoring only the system partition individually. I get the same error message about there not being enough space on the empty destination drive.

Matt,

Before I run out of ideas, let's try something.

From an elevated command prompt, type
DISKPART
LIST DISK
SELECT DISK X where X is the disk number corresponding to your destination drive
CLEAN (this will erase everything on the disk)
EXIT

Then from within ATI, in tools, choose add new disk, select the clean disk.

Then try again to restore from the recovery CD.

Does it help?