Backup 2013 Clone vs Disk & Partition
Before moving to Windows 7 with Acronis 2013 I used in the XP environment Acronis 2009.
My habit was to clone all the company hard drives. If a hard drive failed I would have the exact copy, the clone, and put that into the machine.
With 2013 using the boot cd when running a clone operation I run into unexpected behavior - and simply abort the clone operation. Thus for the last many months I have been running file backup to preserve the essential data. I have no clones.
Today I did a Disk and Partition Backup. The backup included the hidden partition and the OS partition to a usb backup drive. The backup was successful. In the old days I would insert the the clone and minutes later the computer was up and running.
I include screen shots of the backup. I see most of the folders on the backup C drive; and several on the original hard drive are missing. and I see the TIB folder. I don't know what to do if I need to replace the drive that I did this backup on. Do I put this drive as shown in the attachment into the computer - and boot of the Acronis Boot CD and run restore? Can I simply boot from the hard drive - and then run a restore?
If there is a specific article; a comment, that will be helpful.
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If I understand from the original computer I backed up C Drive and backed up the hidden partition to external G Drive.
I remove the usb external G Drive and on another computer I have to external drives connected. Let's say G drive with the image and another freshly formatted hard drive (F). I use the boot CD and restore from G (image) to the new hard drive (F) and F will then become an exact copy of the original computers C drive and the hidden partition. I can then remove the old hard drive from the original computer and put into that machine the restored hard drive F ?
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Yes. If it doesn't work, you can connect F as an internal drive on the other computer instead of connecting it as an external one.