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Acronis would not restore to new hard drive
I've been having a problem and suspected the hard drive. I have another hard drive the same size (1TB) as the suspect drive. I made an Acronis backup (2013) to a USB connected hard drive.
I then disconnected the other hard drive, so only the new (formatted but blank) drive was the only hard drive (other than the USB drive) connected, and connected to the same I/O port on the motherboard. I then booted with the Acronis 2013 rescue disc. I selected the backup to restore from the USB drive but that was as far as I could get, Acronis would not allow "restoring" the backup to the new drive. No matter what I did, that was as far as I could get. I was never able to get to the point of selecting the "target" drive to restore to.
I also booted with an Acronis 2012 rescue disc and had the same problem.
I was able to "clone" the hard drive by booting into Win 7 and starting Acronis 2013. But this scares me if there is some type of problem that Acronis won't restore from a backup. That is my sole purpose of having Acronis. Maybe I should consider Macrium?
I have used backups in the past with Acronis but its been a couple of years and versions since I tried it.
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Jack