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Is this a viable way to restore a disk?

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I had a recent SSD crash. I need to restore an image that's on an external USB hard drive. I have a replacement SSD, same size (1 GB) but I've had too many issues to even mention. But the main one, is the boot CD gets me to a screen that is all garbled and I've tried many things to make this work but no joy..

So I thought I would do this:

  1. use another, much older machine (an MS Vista) to boot up with the boot CD (this works).
  2. attach the new SSD as a USB drive
  3. restore the backup to the SSD
  4. remove the restored SSD and install in the machine that had the original crash

This seems like a viable way to go but I'm unsure and I'm actually having trouble with the older machine seeing the new SSD.

By the way, this is A True Image 2014 install.

Thanks,

Mike S.

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Mike, welcome to these User Forums.

You proposed approach may work but I do not have enough information to be sure of this?

If you have a much newer computer where the SSD backup came from, then this may be using UEFI BIOS with Secure Boot capability which in turn will cause the SSD to use GPT partitioning with NTFS filesystem.

You much older MS Vista computer is most likely going to be a Legacy BIOS machine that does not support or recognise GPT or UEFI, so if you were to restore your SSD backup to a new drive using this machine, then it would be converted from GPT to MBR partitioning and is unlikely to boot in the original computer!

Ideally, you should try to use a computer with the same BIOS as the one the SSD came from.