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Hi,

I made a backup of a HD and now I want to restore the drive to a new drive. Problem is the HD isn't showing under source and destination. The only drives that are being displayed are not even plug into my computer any more. I closed out of TIH and restarted it with no luck, drive still not showing.

I'm actually using the trial mode because I'm looking for a good backup and restore tool. I'm tired of using unreliable software so I'm hoping this will do the job.

Thanks, Tony

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I am assuming that you are using the trial version of 2012?
Which version of Windows?
Is the new drive the same size or larger?

You need a backup of all partitions including any non-lettered partitions. This is the one shown when you click the "disk mode" option. One way to check how you disk is configured is to look at your disk via the Windows Disk Management graphical view. Each partition that you see in that view should be included in your backup.

If you need to create a new backup, this link will show you how.
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/28705

Once you have the correct backup, the restore options you have are
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/29618
1. If target disk is larger or smaller than source, then restore each partition individually, select item 1 from the preceding link. or
2. If target disk is the same size as source, you can use the disk option restore which will restore all partitions at one time. This option is listed as item 2 in preceding link.

Some general help for a new user.
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/29803

Thanks for the replies.

Attach you can see disk recovery showing drives L, M. Above the acronis is the actual drives connected. The l,m drives is the backup I took. Those I'm trying to restore to drive k.

I have win 7 64bit
TIH 2012 trial
The new drive is larger.

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GroverH wrote:
You need a backup of all partitions including any non-lettered partitions. This is the one shown when you click the "disk mode" option. One way to check how you disk is configured is to look at your disk via the Windows Disk Management graphical view. Each partition that you see in that view should be included in your backup.

Your attachment shows the contents of the backup. Are you absolutely positive  these match what is displayed in the Windows Disk Management view. Or

from within the TrueImage, look in the "Tools & utilities" menu and select the option below and see it the disk which you backed up shows 2 or 3 partitions?

View current state of our disks

If the source disk truly has only the two partitions, then you can use the instructions in #1 in post above.

If the source disk has 3 partitions, then do a new backup and click the disk mode and do a new backup  to include all 3partitions on the disk. Afterwards, the item #1 would still apply.

The screen shot is showing places where It will allow me to restore the backup. The L and M drive are not even plugged into the computer as you can see from the window above Acronis.

The backup I made is from two partition but that shouldn't reflect the way things are displayed in the disk recovery window. The K and t drives are on one disk is I was looking to restore l and m to the k and t drives.

So I made another backup of just os(m). With that backup it allows me to restore to the drive I like.

I notice I could have used the clone option also. What is the time frame of cloning compared to backup and restore. The backup of drive took about 45mins and the restore time looks like an 1 hour 16mins.

Thanks, Tony

You're better off doing backup and restore rather than clone.

I Finished restoring the backup. I plug the drive into the computer and everything is restored!!! Sweet!!!

I was a ghost user until it was time to do a restore and that program would not restore for me. I lost data, time and money with that program so I'm glad I was able to test out Acronis, now I can go buy the program and setup backup for my pc.

Thank you