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Hello everybody, I have a rather ageing HP 491 pc which is working perfectly, but I suspect the poor old hard drive which has been spinning for about 7 years at least, will possibly bite the dust sooner rather than later.

With this in mind I have created a system backup using Acronis 11 and made a bootable media CD which I've tested for boot up all ok.

So my question is could I remove the working hard drive and fit a newly purchased IDE one, and run the software to prove everythings ok, and then could I put the original drive back in until the old one goes faulty.

I realise the jumpers have to be exactly the same.

mer 27/03/2013 - 10:54
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Sure you can. Where did you back-up your 7 yr-old drive to?

Pretend your old drive bit the dust. Install the new drive to your PC in its place, then boot the PC using the bootable media CD and restore your backup to the new drive. Reboot the PC and observe that your PC works as before. Either leave the new drive in there or put the old one back-in and wait for it to fail (now you have two backups: the image backup you made, and the new drive that has that image on it).

mer 27/03/2013 - 11:19
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tomf wrote:

Sure you can. Where did you back-up your 7 yr-old drive to?

Pretend your old drive bit the dust. Install the new drive to your PC in its place, then boot the PC using the bootable media CD and restore your backup to the new drive. Reboot the PC and observe that your PC works as before. Either leave the new drive in there or put the old one back-in and wait for it to fail (now you have two backups: the image backup you made, and the new drive that has that image on it).

That's absolutely wonderful, I'm only a 79 year old novice, and was sure someone would come back and say "You can't do that" so I'm now looking forward to starting the job probably over the weekend, and I'l let you know how I went on.

Best regards Anton.

mer 27/03/2013 - 12:02
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Anton,

For more assistance,
There is a version 11 from 2008 (build 8101) but there is also a version 2011 (build 6942) from 2011 within that index,

If your question relates to version 11 of 2008, click on my signature #1 link below and there are several reference for v11..
Within that index, look at listing labelled
item YY,
item ZZ.
item XX
item D

mer 27/03/2013 - 14:12
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GroverH wrote:

Anton,

For more assistance,
There is a version 11 from 2008 (build 8101) but there is also a version 2011 (build 6942) from 2011 within that index,

If your question relates to version 11 of 2008, click on my signature #1 link below and there are several reference for v11..
Within that index, look at listing labelled
item YY,
item ZZ.
item XX
item D

Hello GroverH, thanks for your comments, and I must admit to being a little confused about the existance of a version 11 and a version 2011 but they apparently are not the same, anyway my friend mine is actually the 2011 version, so I think from your post that I am all ok.

Regards Anton.

mer 27/03/2013 - 21:32
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tomf wrote:

Sure you can. Where did you back-up your 7 yr-old drive to?

Pretend your old drive bit the dust. Install the new drive to your PC in its place, then boot the PC using the bootable media CD and restore your backup to the new drive. Reboot the PC and observe that your PC works as before. Either leave the new drive in there or put the old one back-in and wait for it to fail (now you have two backups: the image backup you made, and the new drive that has that image on it).

Hi tomf, as I promised to let you know, the backup and recovery went very smoothly and I have decided to leave the new Hard drive in the PC and keep safe the original fully working one, if ever needed.
So thanks to Acronis I am now in a very strong position of having two working hard drives, and a full back up on external hard drive, and also a boot up media CD.
Happy Easter
Anton.

ven 29/03/2013 - 21:49