- #Acronis true image hd not working from big to small install#
- #Acronis true image hd not working from big to small windows 7#
#Acronis true image hd not working from big to small windows 7#
Was backed up into a 500 GB USB hard drive, using Windows 7 "system image". The C:\ partition (70 GB, 25 GB used), one of 8 partitions in a 320 GB hard drive, These two examples might help clarify how System Image works. Users are reporting problems when using System Image to restore hard drive partitions. " The system image restore failed." Windows 7 P.S, If it turns out that I am unable to restore my system onto a new HDD using system image, then the person responsable for the program should feel bad about themselves, as they are a bad person. I don't have any way of removing the information from my old HDD, my only option is to use the system disk. Please, help me figure out what is wrong. The only information I've learned so far from the forum is that the new HDD must be as big as the old one. If this is the case I do not know why the new HDD would be invalid. It is.įinally it says that an Invalid disk may have been assigned as the system disk.
I even double checked in the command prompt that the new HDD was being seen as the system disk. Was being excluded, due to it having the System image on it. Earlier in the process I was assured that that External Hard Drive It suggested that a USB disk may have been assigned as a system disk, but I have no USB disks attached, other than the one with the System image on it. As I already said, I didn't chose to exclude the disk. I check it and my new HDD shows up ad disk 0.
In the error message "details," it recommended that I type "LIST DISK" command into "DISKPART command interpreter." It even gave me the option to exclude the new HDD. Here's the thing, up to this point it has had no problem seeing the new HDD. Recovering the system disk can be found." I received an error message telling me that the "System Image Restore failed" b ecause "No disk that can be used for
#Acronis true image hd not working from big to small install#
So I booted from the Windows install disk, and tried again to restore from the system image located on my external hard drive. I tried to restore from the system image by going the control pannel, and once I got into the repair program I was told that I need to do this process using the Repair Disk, or windows install disk 7 Then, I tried again after installing windows 7 onto the new drive: I then tried to restore my computer onto the new HDD, from a System Image I had created on an external hard drive.įirst, I attempted to restore the System Image without having installed windows 7 onto the new HDD. My internal Hard drive recently crashed, so I've replaced it with a new one of identical specs.