Can You restore to a different drive with the Acronis True Image 2014 Family Pack?
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Hi James. the answer is definitely yes. I have done it with Acronis many times both with this version and previous ones. How you do it depends on what you are setting out to do e.g replacing a drive in an existing desktop PC, replacing a drive in a laptop or transferring a drive image to a different desktop or laptop. Recently I swapped the 1tb hard drive in my laptop for a 1tb hybrid drive (i.e. one with a small solid state drive that speeds up boot up by storing frequently used programs in the SSD pat of the drive) Acronis worked a treat to do this. In this case I used a usb docking station to plug the new drive in and used the disk migrate tool in Acronis - i.e. running Acronis from within Windows. This then made an exact copy on to the new drive. Once done I swapped them round and presto thanks to Acronis (and Seagate hybrid drive) I now have a laptop that boots up really fast. The ld drive I put into an external enclose and is now used a an external back up drive for the laptop using Acronis for the drive backups! Some procedures need you to create the disk image and save to an external hard drive then create an Acronis boot disk on CD or memory stick and boot from that and run the restore from the external drive as source and new drive as target. It is very flexible in how you can restore or copy one drive to another. In short I can heartily recommence this- I have been using it for several years now and its worth every penny esp when a drive has gone wrong or a software install has messed things up. If you need advice on a particular scenario Id be glad to help. Hope this helps.
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I wouldn't do that. I'd use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone your drive first. If you can.
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No restore disk. Once the computer is up and running it asks you to create a restore disk using a DVDR. So basically you have to create it once image desktop is up and running
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The short answer is yes. The long answer is it depends on what kind of data and where is the hard drive is and do you have a spare disk controller port. If your old hard drive is failing it may be anywhere from easy to nearly impossible depending on the current state of the drive. If you are trying transfer a complete system drive including the OS like Windows with all the functionality then you will likely need a program like Acronis True Image to make a current system image and then transfer it onto the new drive - this is not always as easy as it sounds and you may need to consult with an expert - hopefully you have a friend who is one. If you just want to transfer pics, videos and documents and you can install both drives on the same system and you know where they are on the drive then it is easy, as easy as copying them over. I would really advise finding someone who had done this before, hopefully more than once, and can help you but it is 99% sure you can depending . . .
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Kristin,Carfam is right. Just to add: you can do it manually without the backup tool or even with the included backup tool (using the external for two or more systems).
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Mark, the only way I use Acronis is to clone the entire C drive to an external/portable drive. If I have a problem/crash/corruption, then I clone back. I suppose you could connect the clone (via usb) again and do an explorer search for individual files. Hope it helps. V
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It does create a complete clone. I have deleted everything on my HD and then restored the OS and data. I don't believe you can use it as a C drive but, it will format a new drive to look like your old one.
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The restore disk, if a separate DVD with the software on it, yes. On the other hand, these sometimes come with an installation in place already on the HDD, and you would have to make a clone of the drive to do the install on a new HDD. The last option is to do your setup on the drive that comes with the PC, and THEN clone the drive to a new (larger) drive. This is all legal and above board as long as you don't use the OS in another PC. There are several products available for cloning a HDD. Some of them are even free for this purpose...
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There may be other methods but i used Acronis to create an image. put the drive in retriever Then restored to the SSD in the new computor.
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I used Acronis to create an image file to an external drive. then, restore the image back to SSD. if you encounter any issues better to reinstall the OS than figuring out to fix the problem.
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Are you talking about cloning the contents of this drive to your computer? If so, yes. It is indeed possible, manually or with the help of freeware. I recommend the latter though. I did the opposite though as I have a 3TB drive. Good luck.
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You can certainly copy it. I do not use automated backup routines (except for C: drive) so cannot comment on these.
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Family pack is the normal True image than can be installed on 3 devices. It enables you to restore to same PC or laptop from which it was backed up either to the same disk (if the system got corrupted) or to a replacement disk (or SSD) in the case of a failed disk drive replacement or swapping out for a larger disk or SSD. Premium has the added feature of enabling a restore to a different PC i.e,. if you have upgraded the motherboard etc. it will restore then find and install all the needed drivers for the new hardware. It used to be a add-on to the normal version. I has this and used it a couple of times and it worked reasonably well but still needed so me tweaking of drivers. If you don't plan to change hardware then the family pack will work fine. Even if after using family pack and you have hardware failure (motherboard etc) or switch to a new PC the family pack version will work top do a disk restore to the new pc/laptop and Windows will normally download the needed hardware drivers- or you might need a bit of manual tweaking. I did this successfully last year on a replacement laptop and it worked fine using the normal(family pack) version and running Windows in safe mode then updating hardware drivers. Remember though that whatever version you use, if the drive image is to different hardware either new PC/Laptop or different motherboard& processor it will be necessary for Windows to be re-activated as it will detect these changes. Sometimes it will do this without problem - sometimes it will thow up an error message. However in my experience in the latter case i have found Microsoft support very helpful in de-activating the old installation and allowing re-activation on the new hardware. Hope this helps
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I did exactly this, without problems. The drives weren't even the same, one was 2 years old and full of data and the other one new.
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I don't use the backup software which came with it, nor do I use Windows Backup. I use Acronis True Image 2014, and the answer there is yes. You likely can with both the others as well, but I went with Acronis based on features and reputation. The answer is dependent upon the software you use, not the device. The device is just storage. As long as it's visible, you can do whatever you like, whenever you like. I will say that you should keep data volume versus time in mind. A full backup of 1.8TB takes over 24hrs. You're not likely to get through even an incremental backup nightly of anything over 0.75TB. The CPU on this thing is a bit underpowered. The CPU is maxed during transfers, and that appears to be what holds transfer speeds to 50MB/sec, when they should be over twice that when hung directly on gigabit ethernet as mine is (and both the device and the PC show their ports locked at gigabit). Throughput it throttled by the CPU speed limitation on this device. And double the required backup time if you have it verify your backups after making them, as Acronis can do. So if you're trying to do nightly backups of a -whole system-, the frequency with which you can do so will depend on how much data you have to push. If you're just backing up select locations like a lot of people do, that won't be as big an issue unless you work in video production or something similar.
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I have used the docking station to clone a drive , but physically put both the drive to be cloned and the new drive in the docking station. I use Acronis to clone a drive that has not been removed from the computer. These two methods work great for me.
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My box came with s slip of paper describing how to download the software directly from Acronis. Yes I had to register with Acronis before I could make the software work. The slip of paper came with a short-form registration code, and after you register Acronis sends you a long-form registration code which you can actually use to register the Acronis software. My existing contents in my hard drive were small enough that I could then just use the default auto clone method, then swap the sata cables to boot from the ssd. I then "cleaned up" the two drives such that Windows and program files were on the ssd c: drive and my personal files on the old, now d: drive.