{"id":2450,"date":"2011-07-23T10:47:46","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T14:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=2450"},"modified":"2011-07-23T10:47:46","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T14:47:46","slug":"doreen-has-a-mirror-image-backup-now-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/doreen-has-a-mirror-image-backup-now-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Doreen has a mirror-image backup – now what?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Doreen has an image backup and now she needs it – what should \t\t\tshe do?<\/strong>
\nHi EB & TC. I am so glad I took your advice and made a mirror image \t\t\tof my computer. A few days ago my hard drive died – no warning. I \t\t\tgot on to Dell tech who were very good but confirmed it was my hard \t\t\tdrive and of course my warranty ran out a few weeks ago I Used \t\t\tAcronis 11 for my back up. I will have the new hard drive soon and \t\t\tmy husband knows how to put the new one in, but I am not sure how to \t\t\tgo about putting everything back. Do I have to reinstall windows XP \t\t\tfirst or should I use the Acronis Boot Disc.. The Dell Tech said \t\t\tthey would help me reinstall windows XP Pro first but I think you \t\t\tsaid in one of your news letters Acronis backed up everything with a \t\t\tmirror image. I really do need your expert advice. Thank you, thank \t\t\tyou, thank you. Whatever would we do without you?<\/p>\n

Our answer<\/strong>
\nThanks, Doreen. First of all, a true image backup is a clone of your \t\t\tother hard drive – sector by sector. It includes your Windows XP \t\t\toperating system and all your settings, programs, documents, files, \t\t\tphotos, etc. It’s an exact clone of whatever was on your hard drive \t\t\twhen the backup was created.<\/p>\n

All you need make sure of is that the new hard drive is at least as \t\t\tbig as the old hard drive that failed. If it is (and since it’s \t\t\tnewer it almost certainly will be), then all you need to do is put \t\t\tthe new hard drive in and format it to make it readable by Windows. \t\t\tYour new hard drive will come with a CD you can use to boot your \t\t\tcomputer and format the hard drive. We suggest you use NTFS and not \t\t\tFAT32 when you initially format – although either will work.<\/p>\n

Once your hard drive is formatted, put your Acronis boot disk that \t\t\tyou made when you first installed Acronis into the CD\/DVD drive and \t\t\tshut your computer off using the power button. Then restart your \t\t\tcomputer by turning on the power switch and your computer will boot \t\t\tfrom the Acronis boot disk. You’ll have a menu on the screen and one \t\t\tof the options will be to “Restore your computer” (or something \t\t\tsimilar). Choose that option and follow the instructions. You’ll be \t\t\tasked which backup you wish to use. Assuming you have your backup \t\t\tstored on an external drive, browse to the most recent backup and \t\t\tselect it. Acronis will start transferring the image backup to your \t\t\tnew hard drive – sector by sector. In about 45 minutes to an hour, \t\t\teverything that was on your old hard drive will be on your new hard \t\t\tdrive.<\/p>\n

After all the files in the backup have been transferred to your new \t\t\thard drive, Acronis will tell you that it has successfully restored \t\t\tall the files from your backup to the hard drive. And then you’ll \t\t\tneed to reboot. Most backup programs allow you to reboot your \t\t\tcomputer from the book disk menu. Follow the step-by-step \t\t\tinstructions Acronis gives you and reboot your computer – and \t\t\tprepare to be amazed.<\/p>\n

When your computer has rebooted, everything that was on your old \t\t\thard drive will be there and you’ll be up and running as if nothing \t\t\tever happened. You’ll see why we always push image-based backups. No \t\t\tpiecemeal, file-by-file backup will ever be complete enough. \t\t\tImage-based backups backup everything including your operating \t\t\tsystem. You won’t even have to enter your Windows license key. It’s \t\t\talmost magic \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Doreen has an image backup and now she needs it – what should she do? Hi EB & TC. I am so glad I took your advice and made a mirror image of my computer. A few days ago my hard drive died – no warning. I got on to Dell tech who were very good but confirmed\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2450"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2452,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450\/revisions\/2452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}