Correct procedure for win 7 backup from ssd to ssd ?

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Have Acronis WD edition installed .

Have Win7 64 bit installed on 256 gb ssd boot drive and whole system is updated and registered and
has all my important apps installed and everything is tweaked and tuned to perfection.

Have 64 gb ssd that I want to backup my boot drive to. ( less than 40 gb used on boot drive )

Have big headache from reading all of this @#$% about partitions ,alignment and cloning etc.

The backup drive will be removable. ( I do not even want it near my rig in case of whatever )

The bios on my mobo will allow me to mark that sata port as removable. Should I ?

When I initialized the backup drive win7 wanted to know if I wanted to assign path and a drive letter
the drive. Should I ?

If I ever need to restore my boot drive must it be securely erased first or will "Acronis" take care of it ?

Seems best plan is to make Acronis bootable media and then put my backup ssd in its dock. Is that
correct ?

Mon, 06/25/2012 - 23:50
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Tommy166 wrote:

Have Acronis WD edition installed .

Have Win7 64 bit installed on 256 gb ssd boot drive and whole system is updated and registered and
has all my important apps installed and everything is tweaked and tuned to perfection.

Have 64 gb ssd that I want to backup my boot drive to. ( less than 40 gb used on boot drive )

Have big headache from reading all of this @#$% about partitions ,alignment and cloning etc.

Don't worry about alignment. You can create a disk and partition backup of your SSD and store it anywhere you want. Kind of a waste to use an SSD just to store a TIB file. Are you thinking about cloning? Why?

The backup drive will be removable. ( I do not even want it near my rig in case of whatever )

The bios on my mobo will allow me to mark that sata port as removable. Should I ?

Don't need to. To uninstall the disk you will have to shutdown the computer anyway.

When I initialized the backup drive win7 wanted to know if I wanted to assign path and a drive letter
the drive. Should I ?

If you think about storing a TIB file on your SSD, you will have to initialize it. If you think about cloning, no need to prep it. Just add new disk first, then clone, from the recovery CD. Then unplugged your source disk, put the clone inside and verify the computer boots normally. THen store the clone in a safe place and put your 256GB back in. DO NOT boot Windows with the 2 disks inside.

If I ever need to restore my boot drive must it be securely erased first or will "Acronis" take care of it ?

No secure erase is a specific operation. Not what ATI does when it initializes a disk, also different from cleansing (writing repeated patterns).

Seems best plan is to make Acronis bootable media and then put my backup ssd in its dock. Is that
correct ?

If you clone, actually the best way is to put the target at the place of the source, put the source into the dock, boot the computer on the recovery CD and clone. Make sure you select the right disk as the drive letters are the not same as in Windows.
Also, choose the manual clone method to make sure that there is an offset of 1MB before the first partition, AND each partition, except the last one, has a size expressed as a whole number of megabytes.

Tue, 06/26/2012 - 05:23
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What difference if I clone or make backup image and use the bootable media ?
If I set the backup drives' sata port as removeable it becomes hot swappable.
Still dont know if I should assign path and drive letter to the removable backup ssd.
It was on sale for less or = to 64 bg flash drive.
Its only purpose was to sit in drawer till/if I need to slam it into the "X_Dock on my CM StormTrooper.

Fri, 06/29/2012 - 18:12