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I'm new to Acronis.  My other desktop is getting blue screens a lot and I think the HD is about to die.  I'd like to clone it and then restore to a new hard drive.  Since the computer is not 100% dependable, is it possible to create a bootable flash drive with Acronis True Image and then boot to that and do the cloning?

 

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Robert, welcome to these public User Forums.

If there are problems with your current HDD then please forget about cloning it as you are likely to hit lots of errors in doing so!

The best approach that I can recommend is to make a full disk backup of the suspect HDD with this stored on an external USB drive.  If you are concerned over the reliability of the PC while running from the HDD, then you can make the backup using the Acronis bootable Rescue Media instead of from within Windows.

The first actions here that you need to perform are:

Create the 'Simple' version of the Acronis Rescue Media on a USB stick (min 2GB / max 32GB size).

Confirm the BIOS boot mode used by your PC - do this by running the msinfo32 command from within Windows then look at the BIOS boot mode settings shown in the right side panel - this should be UEFI for most modern PC's, else will show as either Legacy or the make / name of the HDD.  This is important as the Acronis Rescue Media needs to boot using the same BIOS boot mode as your Windows OS.

See KB 63226: Acronis True Image 2020: how to create bootable media and KB 59877: Acronis True Image: how to distinguish between UEFI and Legacy BIOS boot modes of Acronis Bootable Media

KB 63239: Acronis True Image 2020: how to back up entire computer

KB 63252: Acronis True Image 2020: how to back up files or disks

Once you have created a full disk backup image of the HDD then the PC should be shutdown, the HDD removed and replaced by a new drive (HDD or SSD).

Next, boot the Acronis Rescue Media along with your backup image storage drive connected to the PC and Recover the backup to the new drive.

KB 63295: Acronis True Image 2020: How to restore your computer with WinPE-based or WinRE-based media