Cloning an Acer laptop

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I will be receiving today (according to UPS) a new WD 500 GB SATA 300 7200 RPM Hard Drive to replace the 200 GB SATA 150 4200 RPM drive that is in the computer and I am attempting to get ready for the swap.

I have Acronis True Image Home 11 installed on the old hard drive, and wish to clone the new drive. After reading this forum, I have found that I cannot directly clone the drive unless I remove it from the machine, place the new drive in the machine and place the old drive in a SATA - USB dock (which I have).

In preparation for this, I removed the old drive from the machine, placed it in the SATA - USB dock, attached that to the machine, changed the boot order so that the machine would boot from the USB port, and attempted to boot. The boot starts and shortly thereafter blue screens. I tried this several times. The machine will not boot properly from the drive attached to the USB port.

If I cannot boot from the USB port, and if I must have the new drive (without an operating system on it) in the machine, and if True Image is on the unbootable USB drive, how do I get Acronis to work?

By the way, I have an old Acronis TrueImage Home 10 CD that I can boot from. Will that work with a Win 7 drive?

Tue, 07/26/2011 - 20:22
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You won't be able to successfully boot the drive when connected via USB since Windows is designed that way. You need to boot from the TI CD or flash drive.

I assume you mean TI 2011 and TI 2010. If not, be aware that the older versions (10 & 11) do not support Windows 7.

You can download the TI 2011 ISO file from your Acronis account and create a CD from it if you don't have the installed version of TI available to create a CD.

Wed, 07/27/2011 - 00:12