Cloning to a partition on a hard drive
I have ATIH 2012 installed and have recently built a new computer with Windows 7. My primary HDD is a 300GB Velociraptor, and I have a 640GB HDD also installed. This HDD is partitioned in to two roughly 300GB partitions. I am trying to clone my C: drive to one of these partitions, but it seems that it will only clone to an entire HDD, not a partition. Is there a way around this please?
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backup up the system hardisk partions to a storage drive; repalce the old harddisk with the 640gb harddisk; restore the partitions to the new harddisk.
btw, cloning, under Acronis, means imaging the whole disk, one to another.
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Gemini57,
If you are trying to create a dual booting system, create your two partitions and then use backup and restore to write the image to the first partition. Then restore your second backup to the second partition. Finally, use something like EaseBCD to edit the boot manager so you can selectively boot into each partition. I have done that with Windows 7-32 bit on one partition and Windows 7-64 bit on another partition and it works fine.
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Hi all and thanks for the replies.
I thought that by cloning the C: drive to another HDD, if anything happened to my main drive I could simply swap them over. By your replies it would appear that I won't be able to clone my drive to a partition on a second drive, only to a complete hard drive. If I was to use the backup function to the partition, would that be secure, and would I have to re-install all the programs to the C: drive should I have a problem. I thought that by just cloning, I could save a lot of problems and time, and this is what I have been doing rather than using backup. I am open to any offers or suggestions as to what I should be doing to ensure my information can be recovered in the event of a catastrophic failure. I am new to this backup and cloning idea.
Cheers.
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Do a full disk backup to an external HD. You will be able to store many successive full disk backups to an external. If your internal HD ever goes kaput, you can replace it and then restore the latest image from the external HD. After restoration, everything on the new HD will be as it was on the old HD, as of the time of the last backup. That will include everything: the state of your OS; all partitions; all your installed software; all files; - everything.
Don't use Clone, as it is far too limiting. Use full disk backup.
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Gemini57,
A disk and partition backup uses the same technology as the clone to move the information necessary for a full restore. The "only" difference is that a disk backup stores the information in a 'temporary container" (a TIB file), whereas a clone lays out the information directly onto the target disk. So you can think of the clone as a single backup and restore operation.
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You really should read the user guide. Aslo, read grover's guides
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Hi all and again thanks for the replies.
I will firstly read the user guide properly, and will take the advice given and organise an external HDD and do a full back-up. I just thought I could do it to an internal drive. My ignorance of the program and its features and abilities is only too apparent. All your help and suggestions is very much appreciated.
Cheers,
Wolf.
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Gemini57 wrote:I just thought I could do it to an internal drive.
User choice as to where you want to store your backups.
Perhaps this link will help to understand some of the backup options.
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/28705
Also note the left margin under Useful Links. There is some good help there for the 2012 version.
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