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My computer was severely hacked due to my storing 2 passwords on it and visiting a site and downloading something I shouldn't have after my antivirus lapsed. I have a 2 month old acronis  backup and I tried to use it but the HD was totally corrupt and it just locked up. I had to buy a new one and reinstall a purchased copy of win 10. The old hd was windows 10 also. Is it possible to reinstall the old backup on the new hd with the new windows 10. I really hate to lose everything from several years. Or at least is it possible to access files in the backup and reinstall them on the new win 10?? I'd appreciate any help with details please. Thank you. chuck B.

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Speaking for myself I would just chalk this experience up to lesson learned!  I would not attempt to access any files on the old disk as those files may well infect you new system in doing so.  Sorry to hear of your plight.

Bummer!  Gotta agree with Enchantech - seems like a big risk.  However, you could give it a try if you first...

1) Backup the new drive entirely "as is" before you do anything.  Disconnect the drive that contains the backup file from the computer and put it in a safe place. You don't want the drive with the backup anywhere near the live Operating system as you recover data to it in case there is an active infection.  That way, if things go south, you can turn the computer off, wipe the drive and then restore your "good / as is" backup back to the drive using your Acronis offline rescue media (hopefully you have it and know how to use it on that system already).  If not, build that and test it first!

2) Once the backup is good to go, then I'd recommend restoring strictly DATA files (pictures, photos, documents that you trust to to the new OS), assuming you have current and working Antivirus on the machine at that time with real-time protection enabled.

Better yet.  Boot WinPE recovery media (the MVP winpe Acronis media is great for this type of thing).  Then copy the important DATA (again, things like pictures, music, files you know and trust) from the WinPE to the the other disk.  Often times, programs mean to run in full Windows may not run in WinPE so if there is an active virus on the drive where the data resides, it may not get a chance to run in the WinPE environment and if you only copy good DATA during this time, then hopefully you'll be good when you return to the main OS.

3) If things go badly, well, at least you gave it a shot and now know that things are dicey, but can safely return to the good backup you made prior to trying.