Hello New Hard Drive

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I have been putting off getting a new hard drive for a while, but I really had no choice as it was filling up pretty fast.  Luckily, I had an Amazon gift card and grabbed a new Western Digital 1TB drive with it. 

Last night I backed everything up to my WHS, and made an image of the drive using Acronis True Image Home.  Installed the new drive this morning, and restored it with Acronis, and now all is back to normal.

Ah yes, more space!

1-30-2010 11-06-53 AM

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

So everything that was on your original drive you use Acronis True Image Home and didn't have to install anything on your new drive? I just added a 1TB and put on windows 7 as I wanted to keep vista on my other drive instead of partitioning. I guess if i got Acronis True Image Home and backed it up to my external and something happened to my win 7 drive and I wanted to wipe it and put it back I could do that from my external and it would be like it is now?

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Something wrong with 7's imaging?

Siege of Centauri
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Pretty much.  Basically it copied my old drive and restored it to the new one.  

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Thanks

 

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Acronis True Image Home
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This is an awesome utility. If you use Seagate drives you can download DiskWizard which is based on the Acronis utility. It would still be worth a purchase for quick restore of a failed drive though.

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Something wrong with 7's imaging?
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If it's like Vista's, and I believe it is, it will only let you restore to a drive that is exactly the same size as the original.

Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top

Well the good thing about Acronis is that you can make a boot utility with a cheap thumb-drive, and manage your backups from there since mine was placed on an external HD.

Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Hello New Hard Drive
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:thumbsup:

 

Acronis True Image Home
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:thumbsup:

 

 

Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top

ID!  i'm happy for you,i'm happy that you think that 1tb is enough  ;P

Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top

 

I use my external drive to save my completly dates on it.You can alltimes have the situation where your system f**k you and than you are happy if can make a backup from a external drive...

In the last jear I have this sitiation that a update from windows don't work-my Laptop want allway install it but can't do it,so he start every 4 minutes from the beginning.He hang in loop...I can't start my sytem so I can't start a systembackup from the sytem-my luck was my external drive in this situation...

 

 

 

Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I used 7's system image feature last night to backup my 7 drive... 334 gigs of it, mostly art\work resources and Audio apps, samples etc.

took all night.. but finally done along with a handy repair DVD.

 

:)

Reply #12 from Stardock Forums Top

So how long did it take to bank up then to restore to the new drive? I plan on getting a 1TB to replace my 500GB and while I love fresh installs, wouldn't mind trying Acronis out this time.

Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top

macrium reflect is free for personal use,supports w7 as well

 

http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp

 

Features for free edition

Windows XP and Vista compatiblity


Disk Imaging


Access images with Windows Explorer


Scheduler


XML backup definitions


Linux Rescue CD


BartPE Rescue CD plug-in


Network support


CD/DVD writing support
Reply #14 from Stardock Forums Top

ID!  i'm happy for you,i'm happy that you think that 1tb is enough
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Oh it's never enough, but it's certainly an improvement over 250GB.  :)

 

So how long did it take to bank up then to restore to the new drive? I plan on getting a 1TB to replace my 500GB and while I love fresh installs, wouldn't mind trying Acronis out this time.
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It was roughly an hour to backup and another hour or so put it back.  

Reply #15 from Stardock Forums Top

Amazon has it on sale for $31.  :)

Link

 

Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top

micro center has a 1TB right now for $69.99  no I did not do a Type-o $69.99

or a 2TB for $149.99

that's here in Lenexa, Kansas

Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I have a 250 GB drive and have yet to even use half of that.