Hello New Hard Drive

Published on January 30, 2010 By Island Dog In Personal Computing

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!

Comments (Page 1)

DaveBax

on Jan 30, 2010

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?

vStyler

on Jan 30, 2010

Something wrong with 7's imaging?

Island Dog

on Jan 30, 2010

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

DaveBax

on Jan 30, 2010

Thanks

mbar8

on Jan 30, 2010

Acronis True Image Home

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.

CarGuy1

on Jan 30, 2010

Something wrong with 7's imaging?

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.

Island Dog

on Jan 30, 2010

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.

WebGizmos

on Jan 30, 2010

Hello New Hard Drive

Acronis True Image Home

scorpNZ

on Jan 30, 2010

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

martinlo64

on Jan 30, 2010

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...

vStyler

on Jan 30, 2010

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.

CharlesCS

on Jan 31, 2010

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.

scorpNZ

on Jan 31, 2010

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

Island Dog

on Feb 01, 2010

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

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.

It was roughly an hour to backup and another hour or so put it back.

Island Dog

on Feb 01, 2010

Amazon has it on sale for $31.

Link

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