Want to make back of fresh install Win7

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I'm evaluating 2010 home. I've never made any image of an OS but now is a good time to try and learn. I just built a new pc and have it all up to date with the main OS and needed utilities. I plan on putting in a fast HD soon but for now wanted to see if all works well.

I'm looking over the PDF and found Youtube tutorials too. Looking over both of those. Being a new user to imaging let me ask what my best bet is?

I see there is a way to put the new disk in, and click clone to just clone the data from old HD to the new HD. Then boot from that HD, but I'm envisioning something different may not be reading the info correctly.

I want an image of the HD as it is now. So that I have it backed up. When I put the new HD in I want to load up acronis, tell it to grab the image and just put it on the new SSD drive.

Am I assuming correctly that I need to make a bootable media image from tools/utilities "Create Bootable Rescue Media" and then go to backup > choose disk 1 and then save that file? Then I load the bootable rescue media disk and select the back up file I just made of disk 1? I'm assuming I can put it on another HD I have, connect to the PC via USB and have it read from there?

Thu, 05/20/2010 - 14:19
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You assume correctly.

In addition, if you have a spare drive available, you can install it and restore the image to it. This allows you to easily test if the restore works properly without risking the original drive. (If this is just a test setup, this may not matter to you.)

Thu, 05/20/2010 - 16:19
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I have a bit of a question on this.

I boot into the bootable DVD of acronis loader I created.

I go to partitions to back up.

I see DISK1 which is my external USB HD. Below that I see DISK2 which is the 500GB HD on the PC with the O/S and programs.

NTFS (System Reserved) (C:) Pri,Act 100

and

NTFS (Unlabeled) (C:) Pri 465GB

What I don't understand is why is there a C and D listed, when I only have a C: drive with everything loaded on it with this particular PC?

What happens if I restore this to a fresh HD on the same PC?

Will I have a C drive of 100MB and a D drive with the O/S and Programs?!

Mon, 07/19/2010 - 00:57
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TI from the CD is running in Linux. The drive letter assignments are often different from Windows. Windows won't assign a letter to the System Reserved partition, TI will.

For best results, label your partitions and go by the labels instead of the drive letters. For example, you may want to label your "NTFS (Unlabeled)" partition as Windows C, or something similar.

When you restore this type of system, it's usually best to also restore the Disk Signature. This will allow Windows to keep the original drive letter assignments. (Just don't boot the system with two identical [same signature] drives connected.)

Mon, 07/19/2010 - 16:16
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OK, so if I just restore the unlabeled version of the drive to a new HD, it will come up on the new HD as C and boot up OK? I know I need to test but my back up hard drives are not in from newegg yet.

Mon, 07/19/2010 - 16:16
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That's correct, except you will also need to restore the 100MB System Reserved partition (it contains the actual booting files) and it should be Active.

Mon, 07/19/2010 - 18:23
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MudCrab wrote:

That's correct, except you will also need to restore the 100MB System Reserved partition (it contains the actual booting files) and it should be Active.

Where do I restore that to? Just tell it to restore to the new partition (The new C:) as well?

Mon, 07/19/2010 - 19:06
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You would backup both partitions and restore both partitions. These are separate partitions -- they can't be restored to the same partition.

Mon, 07/19/2010 - 21:39
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Well, then I would end up with 2 partitions! A 100MB C: and the OS on D:. Am I missing something?

Mon, 07/19/2010 - 21:50
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Maybe I'm not understanding exactly what you're trying to do. You currently have two partitions -- the 100MB System Reserved partition and the Windows partition. When you create a backup, you'll want (need) to include both partitions. This is standard for a normal Windows 7 install.

The 100MB partition is not automatically assigned a drive letter by Windows. It is still a partition on the drive. C: would still be assigned to the Windows partition (assuming system is backed up and restored properly).

Mon, 07/19/2010 - 23:19
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Greg, as Mudcrab has suggested you need to backup and restore both partitions. The 100MB partition contains the Windows 7 boot code. Windows 7 will not boot without it.

Tue, 07/20/2010 - 00:00
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Thanks for the responses. Once I get my extra hard drives to demo test Ill get a better feel for it. I need to just do a dry run with it.

My concern is that I restore to the new hard drive and end up with a C and D partition when the one I backed up didnt have that, just a C partition.

Tue, 07/20/2010 - 03:35