Data recovery and restore

rz1376 · Sep 5, 2017

Hi everyone,I backed up my entire HDD in a external hard drive before it failed last week,and I bought a new hard drive today.can I restore my OS and files without reinstalling OS and partitioning my hard drive?For example via Acronis bootable CD?
What are my options? Should I have cloned my hard drive instead of back up?
And one more question about cloning with Acronis: if I clone a 1TB hard drive to another 1TB hard drive, do all my files store in a single partition [c partition] or it will exactly look like the other one [multiple partitions]

USAFRet · Sep 5, 2017

How, exactly, did you do this backup and with what?

Does the original drive and OS still work? If so, you can clone directly from old drive to new drive.
Exact steps to follow later, depending on what you want to do.

VJ_Gamer · Sep 5, 2017

Cloning is an exact replica. So before the HDD had failed, you must have cloned it or created a system image backups. You can get the files but you need to install the OS and the applications.

Peace.

rz1376 · Sep 5, 2017

USAFRet :

like i said my original hard drive is broken and i am left with an entire backup from it,in an external hard drive.I used Acronis True image 2017 to do that, when my hard drive was working properly.

USAFRet · Sep 5, 2017

rz1376 :

OK, then....
Probably you can reconstitute this to a new drive.
(no real experience with Acronis, but it should work like the other ones)
I'm assuming you have an already built Acronis Rescue CD or USB created?

Put the new drive in
Boot from your Acronis Rescue thing
Tell it the backup to use, and which drive to apply it to (the new one)
It should, in theory, recreate exactly what was on the original drive. All the partitions, everything.

For others that come across this and read...
This is why you test your backup routine before you need to do it.
And why you do regular backups before drives start failing.

rz1376 · Sep 5, 2017

USAFRet :

rz1376 :

OK, then....
Probably you can reconstitute this to a new drive.
(no real experience with Acronis, but it should work like the other ones)
I'm assuming you have an already built Acronis Rescue CD or USB created?

Put the new drive in
Boot from your Acronis Rescue thing
Tell it the backup to use, and which drive to apply it to (the new one)
It should, in theory, recreate exactly what was on the original drive. All the partitions, everything.

For others that come across this and read...
This is why you test your backup routine before you need to do it.
And why you do regular backups before drives start failing.

thank U.And i will be able to boot windows right after that,right?

USAFRet · Sep 5, 2017

rz1376 :

If the backup was properly created, and the recovery to the new drive works as advertised...yes.

RolandJS · Sep 5, 2017

One thing to watch for - any usb or dvd boot will not assign the drive letters like Windows, during normal Windows load & startup operations, assigned the drive letter Regardless of what drive letters you see, make absolutely sure of X source and Y target.

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