Restore System Backup to entire disk

thoni56

I'm building a new computer so I'd though I check out (and verify) that my backups and the backup process actually works.

So I created a System Backup and a recovery USB on my original system. I connected an old, used, disk to the new system to (practice) restore to.

Booting into the USB on the new system started Backupper. I started a restore task with my System Backup selected.

In the step not shown in the FAQ, where you select the target for the restore, it was only possible to select partitions. As I'm restoring a complete system from another computer/disk, wouldn't selecting a drive be more sensible? The drive I'm targeting already has partitions, but I want to restore the complete system on that disk, not in one of those partitions.

When I select one of the partitions on that drive the restore operations shows that it wants to map all partitions in my system backup into that partition. That's not what I want.

Do I need to erase that disk first?

Also the "Restore in a different location" checkbox doesn't make much sense when doing a system restore. Or does it?

(Backupper Professional 5.6.0)

Flyer

It would be best to use a clean disk. Follow the directions below. Use the procedure for your type drive; MBR use the first set or for GPT, use the second set of instructions. You can enter diskpart from the command prompt after booting from the Aomei recovery USB.

You can simply use diskpart:

2TB drives and smaller: (or MBR drive)

1. Open the Start Menu, type diskpart, press Enter
2. Type list disk, press Enter
3. Type select disk X (where X is the number your drive shows up as), press Enter
4. Type clean, press Enter
5. Type create partition primary, press Enter
6. Type format quick fs=ntfs, press Enter
7. Type assign, press Enter
8. Type exit, press Enter

2.5TB drives and larger: (or any GPT drive)

1. Open the Start Menu, type diskpart, press Enter
2. Type list disk, press Enter
3. Type select disk X (where X is the number your drive shows up as), press Enter
4. Type clean, press Enter
5. Type convert gpt, press Enter
6. Type create partition primary, press Enter
7. Type format quick fs=ntfs, press Enter
8. Type assign, press Enter
9. Type exit, press Enter

thoni56

I'm familiar with partitioning, but many thanks for the detailed info!

If you boot from the recovery USB you will end up in the Backupper UI, and the Windows shell is under Tools (just over the backup list near the right side.

I was thinking that it would be a "natural" option when you restore a Systems Backup to wipe the disk and restore onto that disk. So AOMEItech might want to consider this a suggestion for improvement ;-)

admin

We will improve this function, many thanks for your feedback.