Re: cloning to a new hard drive w/ Acronis True Image 9 - How?

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


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