Acronis True Image

jim3rg · Friday June 27, 2014

Hello guys
I have searched the web but cant seam to find a straight answer to my question.

In the past when I have had traditional Laptops with the standard HDD I have used Acronis software to back up that disc image to an external HDD.

I have a new laptop which has a Solid State Drive (SSD) and I am looking for ways to back up an image of this the SSD so I have a few questions I hope folk can answer.

Can I use Acronis to take an image of my Laptops SSD then store that image on a traditional external hard drive (its a 1tb external drive with the spinning plates type thingy)?

Does the external drive need to be another SSD?

Will there be problems restoring the image from a traditional HHD to my laptops SSD?

Hope you can help cause I dont want to go through 90 individual manual updates having to reboot after almost all of the updates should I need to restore to factory standard.

Jim

mrjackoboy · Friday June 27, 2014

As far as i know, a disc image is the same, whether copied from a hard disk drive, or a solid state drive. It is just an image, should not matter what format it is copied from.

rob

MrK1 · Friday June 27, 2014

What Rob said.

Once you have an image you can store it where you want.
I used to burn the images to dvd and re image from there.

jim3rg · Friday June 27, 2014

Thanks for that, i think i read somewhere that restoring from a external traditional hdd to an ssd caused some problems but must have been my imagination lol.
Thanks for the info.
Jim

greyhounddad · Friday June 27, 2014

TEST IT

a back up is only as good as a recovery.

Mr_Smartepants · Friday June 27, 2014

I do this all the time. Acronis is awesome! You should have no problems cloning/backing-up to/from SSD/HDD.

greyhounddad said:
a back up is only as good as a recovery.

Better yet: A back-up is only as good as a successful recovery.

ravey · Sunday July 6, 2014

If the image you're importing was created on an SSD there should be no problem. I suspect what you read about regarding problems is when you create an image with an HDD then install an SSD and import the image to that. That's what I did when I got my SSD and it took quite a bit of messing about, trying out different imaging software and guides before finally getting it done correctly.

jim3rg · Sunday July 6, 2014

Thanks ravey. I was goi g to buy acronis but there is a free programme called AOMEI Backupper which seams to work just fine for me.
Thanks for all of the help folks.
Jim