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Clean install using a Toatal Disk image Back-up...Help!!!

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Greetings to all,
3 yrs ago I wiped my HDD and reinstalled XP and some other programs that I was using, I then created a total disk image back up in its new pristine state using acronis 11.0 and stored it on an external HDD. (that drive has other files stored on it as well)
My system is pretty bogged down these days and the time has come to wipe the drive and reinstall the OS..therein lies my question, as to how do I accomplish the reinstall using this stored image...can I put it on a USB drive ? If so,how? and are there any tutorials/suggestions out there that can tell me how to do this step by step??? Thanks for your advice..B.C.

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Unless the external HDD where the image is cannot be connected to the computer you want to restore, leave it there.
Produce an Acronis Recovery CD.
Boot on the CD, launch ATI on the CD, and restore from the backup. Restore the entire disk (check the box at the disk level). Be aware that the drive letters on the CD are not the same as in Windows. Look at the disk labels.

Be aware that doing so will erase all data on the disk you restore to. If you have partitions that are NOT in your backup, you cannot restore the entire disk, or these partitions will be erased.

Be aware that doing so will erase all data on the disk you restore to. If you have partitions that are NOT in your backup, you cannot restore the entire disk, or these partitions will be erased.[/quote]

Pat L wrote:

Unless the external HDD where the image is cannot be connected to the computer you want to restore, leave it there.
Produce an Acronis Recovery CD.
Boot on the CD, launch ATI on the CD, and restore from the backup. Restore the entire disk (check the box at the disk level). Be aware that the drive letters on the CD are not the same as in Windows. Look at the disk labels.

Be aware that doing so will erase all data on the disk you restore to. If you have partitions that are NOT in your backup, you cannot restore the entire disk, or these partitions will be erased.

Thanks Pat,

The HDD where the image is stored is connectable via USB...so if I reformat and wipe the existing local drive Clean... can I mount the image from the external storage drive and copy it to the reformatted local drive as a clean install??
thanks for your patience,,,B.C.

Pat L wrote:

Unless the external HDD where the image is cannot be connected to the computer you want to restore, leave it there.
Produce an Acronis Recovery CD.
Boot on the CD, launch ATI on the CD, and restore from the backup. Restore the entire disk (check the box at the disk level). Be aware that the drive letters on the CD are not the same as in Windows. Look at the disk labels.

Be aware that doing so will erase all data on the disk you restore to. If you have partitions that are NOT in your backup, you cannot restore the entire disk, or these partitions will be erased.

Thanks Pat,

The HDD where the image is stored is connectable via USB...so if I reformat and wipe the existing local drive Clean... can I mount the image from the external storage drive and copy it to the reformatted local drive as a clean install??
thanks for your patience,,,B.C.

You cannot copy or mount an archive to restore a system disk.
You have to produce your bootable recovery CD from ATI and boot your computer on it. Then you use the restore function.
No need to wipe the disk. Restoring the entire backup will erase the destination disk.