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Hi guys!
I have bought a new (and larger) hard drive. I keep a full image of my current Windows installation on a USB drive, and i am hoping i will just be able to restore that image (that i made from the ATI boot disk) on to the new drive? Would i then need to expand the partition size, or will the restore process recognise that i am restoring to a larger drive and give me all available space? Or should i resize the partition once i have restored using Disk Director boot disk?

I only ask this question because i see that Acronis offer a seperate Migrate Easy 7 tool.

I guess Windows will need reactivating though...?

Thanks for all your help and suggestions!

By the way - does ATI2014 boot disk support restoring from USB 3 drives at the higher-than-USB 2 speeds? :)
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Adrian Burley wrote:
hoping i will just be able to restore that image (that i made from the ATI boot disk) on to the new drive?

Yes, if you created a full disk mode Backup (Select the checkbox for the entire disk (not just individual partitions).

Adrian Burley wrote:
Would i then need to expand the partition size, or will the restore process recognise that i am restoring to a larger drive and give me all available space?

Yes, but ATI would increase every partition proportionately, which usually isn't what you'd want. Follow the process to restore each partition individually, so allow for selecting a target size. It's explained in the manual and in Grover's new backup and restore guides http://forum.acronis.com/forum/29618

Adrian Burley wrote:
Or should i resize the partition once i have restored using Disk Director boot disk?

Sure, that's another way to do it.

Adrian Burley wrote:
does ATI2014 boot disk support restoring from USB 3 drives at the higher-than-USB 2 speeds?

Yes, for most USB 3.0 ports. Some users report that their USB 3.0 ports don't work, perahps because they use a particular controller not yet supported ty ATI Rescue Media.

Gotcha, thanks for your help!
Interesting point about it expanding partitions proportionately - my C:\ (disk 1, IIRC) drive shows in ATI boot disk as having two partitions - one only being about 100MB in size (but not visible in Windows Explorer).
From what i understand, this is a Windows 8 thing. Knowing my luck, changing that partition will annoy Windows so much that it doesn't boot! :)

Also, thanks for the link to the guides - ill have a read!