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Cloning a hard drive

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I have installed TI Home 2011 and would like to clone my Windows Vista hard drive while preserving the existing drive. A matching (unformatted) hard dive in mounted in a Dock with an eSATA connection to my computer. What are the necesary steps to clone the drive?

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2931: Cloning Laptop Hard Disk
http://kb.acronis.com/content/2931

User Guide
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/download/docs/

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Cloning Risks:
In theory, there should be no risk to the source drive during cloning as the disk is only read. In practice, however, there has been far too many postings of something going wrong during the process. Sometimes it is the operator choosing the wrong disk and cloning the blank onto the master; other times, the power fails during the process; at other times, the computer freezes and the the drive is lost. Simply stated, why take the risk of cloning when it takes on a few minutes longer to do the restore and the master disk is not even connected.
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The procedure is best done when booted from the TI Rescue/Recovery CD.

Important that prior to first boot following clone, that only the one new disk be attached. Both source and target must not be attached at the same time on first boot following the clone.

I would also recommend that the source and target be reversed in position so the source is in the eSata and the target is mounted in its intended boot position--inside the computer. This is important if the computer is an IBM/Lenova laptop.