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I just purchased True Image and the Plus Pack. I have a Dell Latitude E6400 running Win 7 (32). I've purchased an extra hard drive so that I can sawp dives if the one I'm currently using fails. I just want to make sure I'm selecting the correct backup option. I selected disk and partition backup, switched to disk mode and backed up my current drive to a 3 TB external drive. I created a recovery boot disk. If I install the new hard disk and boot with the recovery disk and recover from the .tib created will it fully resore the new drive so that it is bootable and an exact image of the drive I backed up? Thanks!

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Not quite :) .

You can't recover a stored image to the same partition it is stored on, which by your description is what you are thinking.

Just so that I'm on the right wavelength - you have a second drive and you have made an image of your current disk and stored it on the new disk.

The new disk should now have a tib file on it if this is so.

Now, you are hoping to that you can remove your current disk, install your new disk, and then recover the tib image to that same disk, correct?

What you need to do in this instance is make your new disk into two partitions, store the tib (image) file on the second partition (the one you just made) and then you would be able install the disk, boot from the CD and recover the image stored on the second partition to the first partition.

This will only really work if you only want to store one or two images as otherwise you'll run out of room as you'll need to leave enough room in the first partition to take you image contents.

If you just want to be able to swap disks, then cloning instead will resolve the problem and the disk will be ready to just drop in and run seemlessly.

Ideally, I would suggest just using your new disk to store images of your current system and purchase a specific disk when the time comes to recover to.

If your Dell is a laptop, you will need to check that the True Image recovery media can boot and see your drives, and if using the clone method you might need to swap the drives over and reverse clone. Another reason why the image route is slightly less fraught.

Confused? :)

I don't think I explained it very well. Sorry. let me try again. The .tib backup file I created (using the steps in my first post) is on my external backup backup drive. I want to remove my current drive, plug in my new one, boot using the recovery disk and restore the .tib that's on my external drive to the new internal drive. If I do that, will the new drive be an exact copy of my original one? O/S and all? Thanks for the quick response.

Yes.