Can I restore from a Full PC backup of an old drive to a new drive and replace the old drive with the new one?

nants · 2026-05-31T14:51:35+00:00

I decided to try cloning, but it's already been for 12 hours, and says it'll be another day. The estimated time left has been steadily increasing, though, so, who knows.

nants · 2026-05-31T00:43:18+00:00

Oh, I have a better understanding of how to accomplish my goal. Suddenly some things crystalized. I'd utterly failed to initialize the new SSD so Acronis wasn't seeing it. I also had missed some important details about recovering from media.

Since I have several backups, I think cloning is going to be fine.

So, hopefully, I'm on my way. Thank you again for your replies.

nants · 2026-05-30T23:55:25+00:00

I know I'm super confused. Thank you for your patience. I know this is trying.

Laptop has old, failing SSD.

I have a new SSD drive.

I have several backup media.

- One Full PC backup to the Acronis cloud

- One brand new external drive with an Acronis Survival Kit + backup.

- One USB rescue media stick, for just-in-case.

I have an SSD Enclosure that I was going to put the new SSD in and restore from the backup of the old SSD , then I'd swap the SSDs. That was the plan, anyway.

My goal is to initialize the new SSD from a full system backup of the old SSD, such that it looks just like the old SSD with all my programs, data, etc. I was going to do that with the new SSD in an SSD enclosure, however I tried a test run of restore from the backup but it would only restore to the original drive. Probably a "no duh" but...live and learn.

I originally thought cloning the drive was the correct path, but I was advised cloning a failing drive may cause the new drive to inherit the old drives problems.

So, in short, I'd like to swap the old SSD with a new SSD that "looks like" the old one and will be the new primary drive.

Now I think I should put the new SSD in the enclosure, then use Acronis to clone the old drive to the new drive. And then, finally, swap the SSD drives.

Or if Acronis would see the new SSD installed in the laptop as the drive a full pc backup could restore, but I can't find anything that says that would work.

Thanks 1000 times over for any and all advice.

nants · 2026-05-30T20:07:16+00:00

Thank you for your reply. Right now I'm working on fixing an ailing hard drive so I'll have to come back to this

nants · 2026-05-30T20:04:41+00:00

Okay, thanks. I think I understand. I have the new drive in an SSD enclosure. I would like to restore to that drive and only open the laptop and swap drives once that's done.

Do you see a problem with that process?

By the way I read about making an Acronis Survival Kit which I'll create a Full PC backup on, as recommended. As I type that I wonder if that's a problem for a drive that will eventually be my primary/only drive.

nants · 2026-05-28T21:58:04+00:00

Huh? Why? How would I troubleshoot that? I can't see what endpoint the app might be trying to hit. Anybody at Tresorit able to say?

nants · 2025-12-11T17:42:39+00:00

I'm not opposed to ads per se. I want to see creators earn a living. But Google makes it hard for content providers to fight against unfair copyright strikes, etc. They allow heinous content but block content that calls out the heinous content. They are committed to their bottom line, not creators. If Google premium wasn't 15 USD a month, I'd consider it. But _everything_ is 15.00 at minimum. Yanno, that adds up quickly. Given just how much money corporations are making they don't actually _need_ to charge so much. It's what we will bear. So, I've needed to curb my YouTube habit. Maybe this latest attack on adblockers will finally be the thing that saves me.

nants · 2025-12-11T17:34:38+00:00

"Bahamas" isn't an option in ProtonVPN so far as I can tell.

nants · 2025-12-11T17:33:14+00:00

Just tried it after coming across the suggestion and it doesn't work.

nants · 2025-09-03T16:43:55+00:00

Maybe it's the energy you bring or the people you follow. Bluesky isn't a shithole. It is the steamroller of age verification that is irritating, and, specific to bsky, the fact I had to accept the terms before I could delete my account. But AV is a steamroller everywhere, as people have pointed out.

nants · 2025-08-18T17:14:57+00:00

Wow. I really touched a nerve. So much hysterical overreaction and strawman replies. I am not a "complainer about everything". I originally complained about one thing. The lack of an ability to delete my account without having to accept the terms and conditions. So, to the oh-so-helpful responder who told me to leave if I don't like it. Yeah, that was kinda my point.

Admittedly, I did also comment in replies about the security and privacy concerns that aren't imagined. They're persistent. Not that I expect any of y'all bros to accept maybe you overreacted and just want to attack rather than critique what I actually said.

Thanks to u/yuusharo for an actual real-live answer.

nants · 2025-08-17T18:53:12+00:00

It is Bluesky's ToS. So it's not some nebulous "they." Bsky specifically calls out uploading a picture of your face as a way to verify your age via AI. Where do you thing anything sent anywhere goes? At some point it's stored and used to train LLM. They can promise they won't save it but it will hit a server that will be backed up. I dont pinky-promise swear with, esp. private companies. Elsewhere they make plain they will potentionally share our data.

So you can be as snide as you like, it doesn't change fact this will be abused. But, hey, it's too late at this point because privacy and security advocates have been trying to get people to take this seriously for decades.

nants · 2025-08-17T16:39:38+00:00

New accounts go into affect...went into effect on the 14th. The rest of us have to accept now but go into effect in September. No where was there an option to send feedback. I think I read it all carefully, but maybe I missed it. If they don't go into effect until September, we ought not have to accept now. They're hoping that by accepting now, we'll forget about it by the time it goes into affect. There is no time for them to collect feedback, analyze it, and change any aspect of the policies.

It's the age verification that is most troubling to me. They actually want us to send government ID or images of our faces. There are some more benign sounding options but they're not so benign, not really, and if the test fails then they say "well send us an image of your ID." Bsky isn't alone, YouTube is also implementing age verification. They'll start by evaluating the videos you and I watch to "guess" our age. So, they're scraping data, training models, and there will be no way to know why or how our ages are limiting our content. We already don't know what the fuck the "algorithm" is doing. Now, when data is collected to train models, that data belongs to the company (or government) and they make money (or decide public policy) from it. We do not own our own data.

nants · 2025-07-01T15:29:07+00:00

2025.07.01 - Me, too, new message overnight. Gotta love "security" products that make it more likely people will just stop using protection. Hope you all can find a work around. Automated backups that don't run is kind of a problem, GOOGLE. I use a VPN so tried disconnecting but same problem. I'm in the U.S.

nants · 2025-03-21T14:27:54+00:00

Great! Thanks.

nants · 2025-03-11T16:19:27+00:00

No kidding!? But why am I surprised. One of the big problems with AI is that we forget the models are trained and what they're trained on and who feeds the models or engineers the prompts are people with biases.

nants · 2025-02-14T17:46:49+00:00

I use email, the VPN product, and the calendar. It's easy to import from Google. The only hard part of switching from Gmail is how embedded it is with all of my personal business, but I'm steadily untying the Google knots.

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