Using Acronis True Image to restore a partition on a new drive

[foycur]

OK, I have a 100 GB IDE hard drive that I am going to replace with a 250 GB SATA drive. I have an external hard drive to which I have saved an image of the IDE drive. When I put the new SATA drive in, I want to restore that image to it.

The question I have is.....if Acronis True Image is installed on my original 100 GB drive, how exactly do I 'restore' the image to the new drive? I've read the instructions and am just not getting it. Which pi**es me off because I'm a fairly smart person. Is there an Acronis for *****s book out there?

 

[raybay]

It has been a while since I have done one, but I don't think you want the Acronis installed on the old drive. You want it on the computer of the new drive.

 

[LookinAround]

1) Do you have your Acronis CD? If not, run Acronis and build a Rescue CD.
2) Install new HD and boot from the Acronis CD
3) It'll step you through the recovery from backup to new HD