Acronis "Clone" with linux dual boot. Are the problems solved?
Hi to the community. I use Acronis to make Disk Clones. About a year ago, when I tried this with a HDD that had a "dual boot" capability with Debian Linux Acronis destroyed the partition tables on both the source and target drives. What a mess. Since then I have been running only single boot with Win 7.
I have reached the point where I really do need to install Debian again but I don't want to go through all of the problems that I had when my dual boot system was destroyed after doing a clone. I need to know if the problems with doing a clone with Acronis and dual boot systems have been worked out.
I did not find acceptable data in other sources concerning getting things to work smoothly.
I suppose that to be safe I could load Debian on yet another HDD and then go into the CMOS setup to select which operating system to boot from but this seems a tad on the "manual" side, even for me.
Regards
Tom
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Thank you Shadowsports for your response.
I was not aware of the new cloning process for V12 and will investigate.
Was interested in using a VM for linux since I have used VirualPC for Win7 (32 bit). Never used a virtual machine for anything that was compute critical because of the memory usage and the CPU usage. My understanding, which could be wrong, is that VMs emulate an OS which "robs" a lot of the CPU resources. Which VM package do you use? Vmware? Virtualbox? VirtualPC?
Don't know what knoppix is and will investigate. Also not sure of what a "live CD" is. I have used Linux since early 90s but am not current so please forgive some of the elementary questions that I might ask. Are you saying that you simply boot off of a CD in order to run linux? If so, how does one make such a CD without an installation?
Thank you again.
Tom
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Hi Tom,
My need and use of linux is probably not the same as you. The software my employer develops doesn't run on linux so I only dabble for my own benefit.
We use both Vmware and Virtual PC in our lab. I am using them on hardware with better than average processing power and memory. All of the workstations in my testing environment are running 4-6GB or RAM depending on the OS. 32 or 64bit. I've got a few MAC's for testing as well. They are getting dated from a hardware standpoint, but receive regular OS upgrades.
Knoppix is actually a debian derivitive. Like other distros, redhat, Suse, etc. Limited in some regards, but very useable in others. Do a google search for knoppix live cd.
Let us know if you have any luck with v12 #7119
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