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  1. Yes exactly. That is why my intention was for him to back up those files but in addition to have the Acronis make an image of my SSD.

    Because my data files are on a regular internal HD that is separate from the SSD, we didn't need so much to clone those, but did anyway just for backup purposes.

    So we've got a glitch with putting the image onto the new SSD, since when booting gfrom the Acronis boot disc, the external HD (usb 3) with the image is not seen.

    Gotta love computers!

  2. Thanks, I suspect he got in a bit over his head. One of the remarks I saw on googling said something about creating the image using the boot CD that you have created, to make sure it will all work. Which he didn't do.

    Luckily, I had all my data including music, docs, etc., on a regular HD and was only running my OS and programs from the SSD. I've reinstalled the OS but would just like to get all my programs back without going back and doing each individually.

    I'm going to look through those suggestions again and see if I can figure something out. We got into the bios etc. to try to make the external USB hard drive visible, but could only see it after reinstalling the OS from the factory disc.

  3. Namm, when you say change the boot drive, you mean booting up from a cd or USB or other drive which have "everything" on it? Ie. the OS, the installed programs, settings, etc. etc.

    For example, I want to be able to put itunes with all my playlists back on the computer without hassling with it. Likewise for my other programs, without having to install each one from scratch.

    A young guy from work has been helping me with my computer, and he brought Acronis to back me up on an external USB hard drive. But then my SSD crashed, and when booting from the Acronis disk we had made, the external HD was not able to be seen, making it impossible to restore from the external HD.

    The workaround he is proposing is to install OS from original stock recovery disk, then go over to external HD and get the various programs etc and restore them to my new SSD.

    I don't totally understand it -- I do hope it works.

    Apparently something wasn't quite right on the original set up. I've read on the net that one should set up the backup/image using the Acronis disc you have made, in order to be sure that it will work. He seems to have skipped that step.

    A bit frustrating but I'm trying to remain calm.

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  4. Hey VF I really like that picture of the lane with the row of trees! ! !

    Also kr it looks like that house is situated over the water in your pic, what is that ?

    Thanks gentlemen!

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  5. 11 hours, wow. I wonder how much of that was due to the amount of data you had and the speed of your usb connection. I can't remember off the top of my head what USB speed is, but my newer external has USB 3 which is quite a bit faster than USB 2.

    Also an interesting experiment we did, I was using something like "FileSync" to backup my music files from desktop to netbook and was doing it wirelessly, which was rather slow. So we plugged it in and it just started zipping along, I think it was an "ethernet" cable.

    Anyway, I'm replacing the 60G SSD that crashed with a new 120G SSD. I checked the newegg reviews and it seems to have lots of favorable reviews. After having two SSDs crash, I realized a high number of good reviews is essential.

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