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I have ATI on three Win 7 64-bit systems that create incremental DISK images of the C drives (an SSD in each case) to an NAS. I have never had to recover one of the C drive SSDs, but I wanted to test it.

Since I have three computers, I keep a fourth blank SSD spare in the closet. If a C drive on one of the three computers goes bad, the plan was to stick the spare SSD in one of the two working computers, open ATI on that computer and perform a recovery of the bad computer's C drive by navigating to that back up image on the NAS and then specifying the spare SSD (now temporarily in one of the good computers) as the recovery destination.

The problem is that the only destination option ATI has is a drive on the computer from which the image originated (the computer that now has a bad C drive and cannot boot). I want to be able to specify the spare SSD on the computer I am using as the recovery destination ... once the image is recovered to the new SSD, I would simply take it out of the good computer and swap it for the bad SSD in the other computer.

How can I select the recovery destination to be the SSD on a computer that the back up didn't originally come from? Frankly, why can't I specify a destination anywhere on my network?

Thanks.

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You should do the recovery from the recovery CD anyway. This is best practice, although starting the recovery from Windows is obviously supported. Since you should recover the image on a disk that is in the computer from which the image was taken, you don't have options.
You could in theory put the disk in another computer, and use the recovery CD to recover the image on the disk, then take out the disk and put it in the target computer, but this is calling for problems and risks...

When I have other good computers on a network, why would anyone want to bother with a recovery CD? For someone who has only one computer, I can understand ... but why can't I recover a drive image to a disk on whichever computer I want on my network?

Why is the recovery cd "the best practice"? This just seems like a deficiency with ATI in today's home or SOHO environment where computers are connected and one could always be used to temporarily host a fresh disk to be used as the new C drive for a different computer.

For instance, I just bought a USB 3.0 disk docking station ... why shouldn't I be able to go to a good computer on the network, put a fresh drive in the docking station, open ATI and restore a disk backup for the bad computer on the NAS to the drive in the docking station, then take that drive and put it in the computer that had the bad C drive ... this totally eliminates the need for a recovery CD.

ATI makes this very complicated for someone with two or more computers. If I am forced to use a recovery CD, do I need a separate one for each computer? Or is a recovery CD generic and I only need one and can use it on any computer?