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Acronis True Image HD can't select partitions

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I just bought a Kingston SSD 64GB. It came with a DVD with Acronis True Image HD. My hard disk is 500GB, partitioned into 6 drives. The C: and D: drives together add up to 25GB, they contain the system and data I use daily. The rest are videos, music, etc.
The True Image HD program would not allow me to select only the first two partitions, and because the total size of the HD is many times larger than the SSD, it would not do anything.
Am I really the only person to wants to replace a partition or two with an SSD and not the whole HD???

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You're not the only one. I'm in the same boat with a 120GB SSD and a 500GB HDD with 3 partitions. I too thought I would be able to grab just one partition. I ended up transferring all extraneous data to another drive, then shrunk the main HDD down to one partition. I used the Windows Drive Mgt tool for that. Then I went back to Acronis to perform the clone. Still having trouble with the Windows "Genuine" blah blah, but I think I have a fix for that by re-entering my Product Key. We'll see.

ATI does allow selection of a single partition or just some partitions on a drive. There must be something else going on with your procedure.

JM/tuttle - I ran the clone process again and this time Windows came up fine. No issues. To clarify my previous message, I eliminated the extra partitions on my main drive after I transferred that data to another internal drive. If you haven't already done that, I see no other way around it.

J

The free OEM supplied Acronis True Image HD program is based on an older version of Acronis True Image, and only has a subset of the features of the full program. The free OEM supplied version is designed for cloning from one drive to another. The full purchased product of Acronis True Image Home allows a full backup of a hard disk, or selected partitions only. Even will a full backup, if the total data on the source hard drive is smaller than the size of the new SSD, a restore could still be done (reducing the size of the partitions), or a selective partition(s) restore can be made.

The full purchased product of Acronis True Image Home allows a full backup of a hard disk, or selected partitions only.

Hello James F
Could you please explain how to do that (selected partition only) because it's exactly that I am looking for here:

http://forum.acronis.com/forums/acronis-true-image-home-discussions/acr…