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TIB file to New Hard Disk - How??

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I used to be a fan of True image 5 yrs ago. I was fiddling with a friends installation of True Image 2013 and i could not see a way to do the following - something I always did with older versions. We have made a TIB file of a drive that includes an OS, bootable partition, program files etc. Lets say its 10GB. I have a new drive that i would like to use to start the same computer. How do I use the WIndows 7 Acronis True Image program to make a bootable drive with the TIB? Now its something that I will do often so I dont want to use the bootable media. When i open the program i see you can choose the TIB file but it says "source and destination" as the same, How could that make any sense. I can see nowhere to choose which drive i want to write the TIB file. It seems that Acronis has tied a TIB to its original source. I have search the forums and internet -"how to back up a tib onto a new drive" and without using the bootable media - i cant find any solution. I was going to install a trial but if i cant do this I wont bother.

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Check out the many user guides and tutorials in the left margin of this forum, particularly Getting Started and Grover's True Image Guides which are illustrated with step-by-step screenshots.

You would make a full disk mode backup, selecting the entire disk and not just some partitions, which can be done from the Windows version of ATI.

If you want that backup image restored to another drive, the safest way to do so is from the ATI2013 bootable Recovery Media (Rescue Media). I realize you said you don't want to use that, but you came here for advice and that is the safest method. Using the ATI2013 bootable Recovery Media (Rescue Media) takes Windows out of the equation, which is preferred when restoring a backup image (or when cloning, which is a riskier option).

When doing a restore to a new disk with 2013, on the restore screen, if you switch to disk mode, you will have a pull down that allows selection of the destination. See attached screen shot.
You will have to have a drive that has enough capacity to do the restore and, can not contain the .tib file that you are restoring from.
In the screen capture that I have attached, there are only two valid locations to restore to. The original disk (Disk 1), overwriting the current installation, and Disk 3 that could be used as a target.
To be able to do as you have suggested would take three drives. The original drive, the target drive, and a drive containing the .tib file (for example an external drive).
You also could skip the backup step, and use the clone feature to clone from the original source drive to a target destination drive directly.

James

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