HD recovery to a new computer
Hello everybody,
I've been using a method to recover a HD with operating system and files to a new computer using a universal recovery. This is how I am currently doing it.
1. Get the hard drive from bad computer and image it creating a tib file.
2. Boot acronis on a new computer, find the tib file and recover using universal recovery.
I would like to save some time by using universal recovery on the fly. Something like clone disk with universal recovery if that makes sense.
So I could put two hard drives on the computer and use universal recovery to recover HD to a new computer without creating the tib file? Can this be done with some different steps? Thanks for any ideas.
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Not sure what you mean. If I move the hard drive from old computer to the new computer it wont boot because there is too much hardware change.
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Hello go intern and DwnNDrty,
I would like to save some time by using universal recovery on the fly. Something like clone disk with universal recovery if that makes sense.
So I could put two hard drives on the computer and use universal recovery to recover HD to a new computer without creating the tib file? Can this be done with some different steps? Thanks for any ideas.
Unfortunately, Universal Restore can be used during actual recovery from .tib image only. It just responsible for HAL level drivers changing, in order to recover onto dissimilar hardware. It's not possible handle the scheme you mentioned with current versions of our programs.
Thank you.
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go intern wrote:Not sure what you mean. If I move the hard drive from old computer to the new computer it wont boot because there is too much hardware change.
It will boot but when Windows does its hardware/driver setup it will realize that the drivers don't match the device or are non-existent and then complain.
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I have a similar though I believe easier problem. I never expected the backup of the old computer to recreate an image on a different computer & Windows system (7). I simply moved my old hard disk into my new computer (I had a spare slot) and access it when I need some non-executable files.
But I still have the problem of backing up onto an external disk that contains many images of my old computer. My first impulse is just to reformat that disk since I don't need anything on it. But I had been warned in the past that if I do that there will be a problem with the list of past backups and that Acronis will be confused (or I will be confused by what it does). How can I reset the list of backups in Acronis 2011 so I start anew? Should I reformat the external disk and uninstall and reinstall Acronis? Seems like a drastic method.
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Zenon,
If you intend to delete the TIB files, just delete the corresponding backup tasks in ATI.
You can also move the TIB files for safekeeping, and then delete the tasks in ATI.
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Thanks. I could not find a way to delete tasks in ATI but have now located the right-click trick.
Zenon
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