Re: cloning to a new hard drive w/ Acronis True Image 9 - How?
- From: "Patrick Keenan" <test@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 22:39:52 -0500
"Mary Fowler Leek" <mleek@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Anna and Patrick,
Thank you both so much for taking the time to describe the process. It
will not only help me, but who knows how many other readers, who will
print out and save these detailed instructions for future reference.
I'm not even certain if I have two internal hard drive bays. Terrible,
isn't it, but I'll have to open up and take a look. I do have a 250 gig
usb external drive that I could clone to, then switch out the old primary
hard drive with the new one, boot from my Acronis recovery cd and reverse
the cloning process from the just cloned usb drive, back to the newly
installed internal hard drive. Will this work if I don't have two sata
connections inside my box?
I've been in there in the past but I've forgotten the internal
configuration. Well, just took a quick look. There are two drive bays open
but the sata cable only has one connector. Is that correct. Should there
be another cable connector on the MB where another sata cable would
connect or do you use a sata cable with dual plugs on one end, like we
used to use with the IDE/EIDE drives? I guess I need to go get a flash
light and climb under the desk and see if I can spot what might be another
place to connect a second cable and drive to the MB. Getting too old for
all this digging around under the desk! :-)
My thanks once again for all the great detailed explanations.
Mary
There should be more SATA ports on the motherboard - look there. And you
don't need to bolt the new drive in while you're doing this.
Alternately, use external cases or adapters. These are useful and not
particularly expensive. The ones I use were under CDN$30.
I regularly do cloning to and from drives attached via USB 2.0 cases or
adapters, not internal to the system. It's not a problem for TrueImage;
some older versions of Ghost could only clone via DOS reboot, and had
difficulties with anything external, SCSI or USB. It's a little slower but
for the purpose that doesn't matter.
As to two-stage cloning, this may not give you the option to revise the
partition size.
HTH
-pk
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