Added 2nd hard drive and used "Clone Disk" - Now I have questions
My issue is more hardware and less Acronis, but maybe someone can give me some advice.
I have a 500GB harddrive that was full. I installed a 1 TB harddrive in this Dell XPS 420 desktop and ran the "clone disk" tool.
On observation, the new harddrive appears to be the exact image of the old harddrive, BUT when I look in Computer Mangement > Disk Management, it tells me that the old C drive contains > System, Boot, Page File, Active, Primary Partition. The new cloned drive (designated as E drive contains > active, Primary Partition
Thus, if I want to boot the computer to the new drive (E drive)
1) how do I make the E drive into the C drive?
2)where is the system, boot, and page file that is found on the old C drive, on the new drive? was it not "cloned" ?
Thank you all
You can't have two windows system drives connected to a windows pc. If you boot up with two such drives connected, windows will mark one of them as system and the other as not and that drive will not then be bootable.
Best to start your cloining from the BootCD, after the cloning is complete, shut down the pc and remove the source drive, then reboot with the new drive in place. As pat advises, even better to swap new drive and source drive before cloning. Then clone, shut down the pc and disconnect the source drive, then reboot.
Thnak youScott and Pat; a light has come on and I see it now.
Pat brings up something that I did not do, nor know how to do, which is setting up partitions.
My system is 32 bit windows 7 ultimate
The old hard drive was 500 gb and there is 499+gb stored on it.
The new drive is 1 tb
Would it be a problem if I left the setup on automatic?
If better on manual, where and what would I partition?
Thanks again
You can try it on automatic and see if it boots up okay. If not, the do it again and manually set the partitions in the same order and size as before except you can make the C partition bigger. If you have already made some partitions of your own, you can make those bigger too. If you see a hidden or a system reserved partition, don't change their size.
Instead of cloning, I'd make a full diskmode backup and restore that instead of cloning. Requires another disk but safer.
IF doing a restore instead of cloning operation, then uncheck the restore the track0/mbr box -- this will let you manually size the partitions. Restore the Track0/mb last -- inlcude the disk sisgnature if offered the option.
Scott, if your still there
I don't have any idea of what you just told me, unfortunately. Is there a guide somewhere for me to read about partitions.
Also, I tried going back and disconnecting the C: drive from the SATA cable (designated in setup as 0 SATA and phugging that SATA cable into my new drive, which became ) SATA, but when trying to start up the computer, it tells me there is no boot device available.
So, I ask again, when I did the clone, did the boot 'stuff' copy over as well as the data etc
If you swap your hard disks so a blank disk is installed where the system drive was, you need to boot with the Bootcd. If you didn't make one yet, then run ati and make the bootCD or else log into your account on acronis.com, go to product updates and navigate to the bootcd download. download this iso and burn it to a cd. Then you'll have a bootcd.
Also, check out the userguide that you can download from the same website:
http://www.acronis.com/support/documentation/index.html
Also, check out Grover's Guides -- you should be able to see a link listed on the lefthand side of this forum page.
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