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Restoring to a new blank C: hard disk

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I have failed to find out how to restore to a new blank c: from an external drive. Does Acronis supply a boot cd to get the restore started? Or What do you do?

I'm sorry to be so stupid!

Donnie

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At least you know you need something and have the sense to ask the question!

Yes, I don't have the 2012 product but there will be a place where you can create recovery media using your own PC, either a CD or a USB flash drive. This is a Linux-based environment that you can boot up to do a restore. The recovery media is machine independent so it can be used on any machine not just the one it was created with.

It will be described in the User Guide and you might want to have a look at the Useful Links on left of your screen.

If you can't make a bootable recovery disk from TIH 2012 (and I, among others, can't), you can download one. You'll download a .iso CD image, and then you'd have to burn a CD from that.