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Hi DenisFrank,
I just got hold of a brand new uninitialised disk.
I deliberately left it uninitialised so I could test system image recovery on it.
1 Acronis True image could not restore a disk image to it. It could not see it as an available target disk; it could not see it at all.
2 Macrium reflect could see the uninitialised disk and did successfully restore a system image to it.
I don't have any Windows backup & restore system images so I could not test that.
I now believe that those tiny red down-arrows you illustrated all that time ago are indicators of a need to right-click & carry out some obligatory action. In my case it was right-click & initialise.
View attachment 37586
Now I've got to clear the disk out so I can do what I actually wanted with it.
Fortunately, I have MiniTool Partition Wizard & EaseUS Partition Master because Disk mgmt cannot delete its EFI & recovery partitions.
All the best,
Denis
To get back to the Windows image recovery process that I intend to do even if I go for a 2.5" SATA EVO SSD:
Apparently WinPE (Windows recovery using USB thumb drive) has a (rigid) HDD convention:
Acer forum: "By the way, the external USB drive should be larger than the source hard drive. You can create/store only one Windows recovery image from a PC on one external drive if more images are stored on the same drive you have to change the computer name for each image created otherwise your image file won't be found by WinPE."
W8 forum Tutorial: You can only do a system image recovery to a HDD or SSD that is the same size or larger than the one(s) included in the system image when it was created.
Re-image your computer, restore options:
3) Not grayed out and unselected
Here you have the option to select format the whole disk and repartition or not. In this case the disk the image was taken from has a matching partition structure to the disk you are restoring the image to. By not selecting the format and repartition option your image will be restored and other partitions untouched such as valuable data partitions. I want to select "format the whole disk and repartition" if this option will show up (source and target drives don't have a matching partition structure, option may be grayed out)?
My source drive capacity is: 930.4 GB (824.48 GB free)
My mechanical target drive capacity is: 931.5 GB (empty, not yet formatted), the 1 TB SSD EVO capacity is also 931 GB (usable)
I think I am OK with all this, any comments?
Frank
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