Western Digital Clone
Hello, just downloaded the trial version 0f True Image WD but it tells me it won't clone on trial version. DO I NEED TO BUY IT.
I got one shot at this and I want to make sure I give it the best go.
Cas: Have a harddrive that clicks. Been in the freezer for a week. Its a Western Digital and I have a new one ( WD ) ready to clone whatever it can off the old one.
ONE SHot I am told I have or its off to the laboratory for some surgery to try and save vitals.
So let me know what product will give me the best shot at it.
Thx, Liv.
Note, if you buy ATI 2011 and register the serial with Acronis, doing so will give you access to download the "bootable media" file fro your account. This will enable you to burn/create the same bootable Recovery CD without performing an install on an alternate computer.
I think this does but you get the 2010 version without file backup and probably few other features disabled.
http://support.wdc.com/product/downloaddetail.asp?swid=119
Acronis True Image WD Edition Software
Acronis True Image WD Edition Software helps you to completely clone your current system drive onto your new WD hard drive. Cloning makes an exact copy of your old system drive on your new WD hard drive, including the operating system, applications, data, preferences, and email settings. Everything will be present and operate exactly as it did on your old hard drive. Acronis True Image WD Edition now supports WD Advanced Format Drives and ensures that all partitions are optimally aligned.
ATIWD is based on the award winning Acronis True image Home 2009 backup, restore and disaster recovery program.
Key Features of Acronis True Image WD Edition Software: (continued) http://support.wdc.com/product/downloaddetail.asp?swid=119
Screenshot: (see attachment)
Yes, 2011 does not clone disks in the trial version, you need to buy it................ I bought it and its awesome.
I own a paid edition of TIH2011. Will that clone a new WD drive or do i need to download the WD edition. The new WD drive is a Scorpio Black WD7500BPKT 750 GB
You do not need the WD edition. The paid 2011 should work plus you cannot have both version installed at the same time.
Thanks for the quick reply. That's what I thought, but figured I'd ask first. I have a Thinkpad that, as i remember requires that you put the new disk in the laptop, and boot from the old disk in plugged into a USB port. At least that's what I remember from my last HD change.
I can just boot from the the new media disk I made.
Yes. Remove the old disk from the Thinkpad and replace it with the new one before attempting the replication. This is due to the special disk geometry used by the Thinkpad. Use the TI Bootable media Recovery CD to do the clone.
Just to be safe. Take the time to do a full and complete disk backup of all your partitions on the old disk before you attempt the clone. Checkout my "read before cloning" info in my signature below. This can also be done from the CD.
That's exactly what I remembered. I do a complete disk backup every night, so i will have a backup of everything when I do the clone first thing in the morning.
Thanks for your help/
Hello,
I am very grateful for this thread, as it is answering a few issues I am having. There are a few left unanswered though.
I have a ~7 year old IBM desktop Thinkpad with 2 WD 40 GB HDDs that are partitioned as Master (C:SYSTEM, and D:Apps) and Slave (G:Data, and H:System_Pagefile). They are essentially full and I am replacing them with 2 new WD Caviar Blue 500 GB HDDs . The migration _should_ have been simple and I have gotten them to work as they should, but I intermittently get MBR errors, most often after Windows XP restarts but also sometimes from a cold boot. Fearing I've missed some subtlety, I am going to re-start from the bottom up.
I have used TIHv11 (not 2011) to make a full system backup, now residing on the new slave (It's got soo much room :-) !!)
And so the Questions:
(1) When I upgrade my Acronis, Will I need to get the WD edition, or will the 2011 edition suffice?
(2) Could you explain more about the Thinkpad's "special geometry" and the appropriate order of swapping disks? (specifically, is it an issue in my case where I can have any combination of 2 disks installed simultaneously?)
(3) I have wiped the new master using Acronis' DriveCleaner utility. Is there any "pre-game" that needs to be done before I restore or can I just go for it?
Thanks
(1) the 2011 version is what you need
(2) I don't think the geometry applies to your desktop system. This is a concern for laptops.
(3) You are set. Put the target disk in place and restore each partition you want on that disk. Upon reboot you will have to adjust the system settings for the page file if you keep a separate partition for it and it has changed letter. If you have a boot issue or intermittent MBR issues, create am XP recovery console CD and use the repair startup or bootrec options to repair your BCD, MBR, etc.