Clone drive to WD My Books USB
Hi all, I am trying to clone my hard drive to a WD My Books 1TB USB drive. I am running windows xp and using True Image Home 2010.
I have everything plug in, have the hard drive pointed to the USB drive and all that, but when the screen comes up that tells me the system has to reboot in order to do the backup, I hit the "reboot" button and an error comes up that says some like "The system could not reboot because I do not have the right privileges to do so." and when I try to reboot the computer manually,... the Windows Acronis backup screen comes up and said the clone failed because it could not located any image.
Any idea's what I could be doing wrong?
Any reason you want to use the Clone feature and not Backup? Even if you clone that external drive, you will not be able to boot from it.
Thanks for your reply.. well, this is what I was wanting to do and maybe I can't do it,.. I am kinda new to all this "backup" stuff. I never really had a reason to back stuff up till now but anyways.. maybe you can answer this for me. I was also going to post this in the froum to see what other have to say so i can take in a few ideas, but it looks like you are here a lot and know alot about Acronis Backup.
What I would like is this:
I would like to make backup of my hole hard drive, so it my computer crashes I don't want to re-install everything and none of my settings to change in the programs. I was thinking I could just do a clone of the drive with True Image and if the computer hard drive failed, I could use the media boot disk I make in True Image, point it to my USB and have it pull the clone data and restore the new drive like it was on my old system. Can I do that? If so, what would you suggest the way to do it?
Okay you have the right idea ... you're just using the wrong term when it comes to True Image. Clone and Backup are two different animals, which is why I asked your reason for wanting to do a Clone.
The difference in a nutshell: A cloned drive can be put in place of the original and is immediately bootable like the original.
But when you use Backup you create an Image of the source. The Image is a compressed version of the source. And the Image has to undergo the Recovery process on to a target drive to make the target bootable like the source.
So what you want to do is make an Image of your system drive and if it failed you would replace the drive, boot with the True Image Rescue cd and use the Recovery feature to restore the Image to the new drive.
A really convenient way to keep the Images is an external usb drive.
Thank you DwnNDrty for your reply.
So, in True Image,.. can you guide me in how to make an image of the drive? I just want to make sure I do this right so I don't screw it up. Trust me, if there is a way.. I will screw it up.
Check item 7D inside my signature index.
I would like to make backup of my whole hard drive, so it my computer crashes I don't want to re-install everything and none of my settings to change in the programs. I was thinking I could just do aclonebackup image of the drive with True Image and if the computer hard drive failed, I could use the media boot disk I make in True Image, point it to my USB and have it pull theclone databackup image and restore to the new drive like it was on my old system. Can I do that? If so, what would you suggest the way to do it?
What you are describing as cloning is creating a backup image in Acronis terms. Yes, creating and recovering a backup image is what TrueImage Home is all about. A good place to start for background reading is item with 7A, 7B and 7C inside my index. The type of backup for easiest recovery to a new drive is to check mark the disk option (include all partitions) when performing a Disk/Partitions backup.
I will and thank you.