If I do a disk image with Acronis, to an external hard drive, and lets say in the future my main drive C?

Question

fails, I get a new hard drive, and use Acronis to restore the disk image back up I did, will my computer be the same as before? like everything in the same location, my games working fine, and etc?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

yes it will be working fine. With the disk image you make a copy of your hard drive at that moment. When you get a new drive which is bigger or smaller, it don't mind as you only place back the files as it was and so you can play all your games etc.

Answer 3

Yes. Acronis and Norton Ghost both copy a hard drive sector by sector in essence making an EXACT clone. The process takes a while, but is well worth it if you are worried about losing important data. Obviously you can't know when a hard drive is going to fail, and failure rates are pretty low, but better safe than sorry!

I actually prefer Norton Ghost over Acronis but for a home user the price is not worth it. Either utility works well and will get you very similar results

Good luck!!