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I know it's something simple, but I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

I have a Mac running XP via bootcamp. XP is installed on a 1 TB internal drive and I want to move it to a partition on my SSD boot drive. The XP installation takes a lot less space than the 120 GB I have partitioned and waiting for it. I have 5 internal drives - (1) a 240 GB SSD partitioned as 1 x 120 HFS+ Mac boot drive and 1 x 120 GB NTFS that I want as a Windows boot drive; (2) a 1.5 TB HDD with 2 HFS+ partitions and 1 NTFS partition; (3) a 1 TB NTFS drive with XP on it that is my boot camp drive (4) & (5) are 1.5 TB HFS+ drives that I use on the Mac side.

True Image sees my 5 internal hard drives but 4 of the 5 are greyed out and can not be selected and it does not see any of the partitions. All drives and partitions show up just fine in Windows Explorer.

What must I do to get the software to recognize my drives? Of course, it was after I paid for the software that I see it can not clone anything less than a full drive, but it should be able to backup and restore to accomplish my goal. This task is trivial on the OSX side using Carbon Copy Cloner (for HFS+), am I expecting True Image to accomplish a task it can't?

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Hello Tom,

Let me assist you.

Please note that there's a large difference between creating/restoring backup and using the embedded Clone tool.

The Backup wizard of Acronis True Image creates an image file for backup and disaster recovery purposes, while the Disk Clone tool simply copies/moves the entire contents of one hard disk drive to another. Here's how both tools work and when you should use them.

When you create an image with Acronis True Image, you get an exact copy of your hard disk, a disk partition or individual files or folders (you make this choice when you create an image archive). If you choose to back up a hard disk drive or a partition, then every portion of the hard disk that has data written to it (sectors) is saved into a compressed file - or multiple files if you prefer. You can save this image to any supported storage device and use it as a backup or for disaster recovery. (Note: if Acronis True Image cannot identify the file system, it creates a sector-by-sector image of the disk. This image is not compressed and the image file will be of the same size as the disk being imaged.)

When you use the Disk Clone tool, you effectively copy/move all of the contents of one hard disk drive onto another hard disk drive. This function allows you to transfer all the information (including the operating system and installed programs) from a small hard disk drive to a large one without having to reinstall and reconfigure all of your software. Migration takes minutes, not hours, but it is not generally used as a backup strategy.

In your case I recommend you to create an image of Windows XP partition and then restore it to the new SSD drive.

Please let me know if you have any additional questions.

Thank you.

I hope so. I am about to clone my C drive and not move it. Acronis, PLEASE CHANGE THE VERB.

Joel,
Her choice of the "move" may be confusing but be careful in your use of the word "clone". As used by Acronis, when you use the Clone procedure, you will be creating a duplicate of the entire disk which will include any and all partitions on the source disk. The contents of the target disk will be deleted so the clone process may include much more than Drive C--all depending upon how your disk is partitioned.