usb clone
Hi, Im looking at cloning a boot drive. Ive done it many times before, but because the pc concerned is difficult to access im trying to take a shortcut to make it so it only has to be removed once.
Heres what I propose. I want to clone the boot (c) drive of a win 7 home p pc with ATI 2010. I have read an article at
http://kb.acronis.com/content/2931
That explains how to clone a laptop pc via USB. My DESKTOP pc also has a D drive which I will disconnect before any clone procedure. I may be paranoid but this will stop any error on my part to clone to, or, from the wrong drive. Am i correct by thinking that?
will the following work
1: remove my existing c drive, and put it in a usb temporary reader/writer thingy
2: put the new drive in the pc in place of the old c drive
3: boot pc with rescue disc and clone away from 1tb to 2tb
or have I tried to oversimplify the issue, please note this is a desktop pc, and yes I will do an image backup before I start.
Thanks in advance
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Pat L wrote:John,
You got it right. I suggest to clone manually so that you can control how the partitions will be resized.
Finally remember to remove the source before booting the computer on the new cloned disk.
Thanks Pat, Yes I will definitely disconnect the usb disc before rebooting, got caught by not doing this (not by usb though) before on a xp pc, and I can tell you its one more good reason for having an image backup. They reckon you learn by your mistakes, bloody hell I must be a genius!!!
I have never cloned to a larger HDD on win 7 before, so I guess the manual method would prevent the win7 100MB boot partition from being made larger because of the doubling of HDD size, as ideally only the data partition requires to be bigger. I think I have a handle on it??????
Thanks again for your prompt response
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Correct. Manual cloning will help prevent the unwanting scaling of partitions and/or adjust offset (if it is not 1MB)
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