How do you swap out your hard drive with the Acronis backup image with the failed drive?
Hi, I know this must have been addressed somewhere on the Acronis forums, but for the life of me, can't seem to find any specific references. Thanks to Acronis support and helpers on this forum, I backed up my older WD 2000 hard drive that was seemingly dying before it did.
Well, it worked OK for the past year but a few days ago started to act up and now getting error 108 with WD Diagnostics. So, to cut to the chase, how do I get the other WD hard drive (much newer) with the backup image to work after taking out the almost dead one.
I guess what I am asking is, how do I get the computer to boot up with the backup image after swapping out hard drives. I can't seem to find any threads demostrating this procedure as this seems to be what most users of Acronis would need to know to complete their mission to get the computer up and running again with backed up copy.
Well, thanks so much for listening, am sure you can assist or direct me to a thread or post that shows how this can be accomplished, DR
Derek,
To clarify, is this correct? ↓
You have a full-HDD Image file that is currently located on your newer WD "C" (Source / OS) HDD and you want to install that Image onto your existing "C" Source /OS HDD.
If so, I think you'd need to move the Image file from your "C" HDD onto an external HDD, like a USB HDD, etc, before proceeding with the "Restore" process. You could also move the Image file to another internal HDD with an Enclosure (basically that's a SATA-USB Adapter).
Once you have moved your Image file onto another HDD, then you can boot up on your Acronis Rescue CD and restore the Image file back to your "C" HDD using the external HDD as your Image Source location and your current "C" HDD as your Destination HDD.
If I recall, Acronis will ask you if you want to format or erase all existing content from your "C" HDD before restoring the Image file to that HDD. I always pre-delete all partitions from my Target HDD's when test-restoring (or cloning) a HDD but that's just a personal preference.
Before you do anything, insure that you have all personal (excluding program/OS) content that's presently on your "C" HDD backed up in another location, like "My Documents" folders, e-mail client data files, things like that. This way, you'll have a failsafe copy of your personal data in the event that the full-HDD Restore process encounters any errors.
I don't know of a method that can do a full-HDD Restore operation when the source Image is located on the Target HDD (located on the same HDD that you want to restore to). Perhaps there's a way to do that but it's easy to do it as I mentioned earlier.