Software will not allow my media to be bootable
I am trying to make a bootable clone of my hard drive and I can't get the Acronis software to to make my drive drive bootable. Any thoughts?
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William,
I agree with Tuttle, but if you wish to go ahead using the clone method you must make sure that the source and desination drive are not connected at the same time on first reboot. Secondly, if your PC is a laptop or something like a Gateway PC, you actually may need to 'reverse' clone due to the special disk layout and BIOS' those machines often use.
To 'reverse' clone requires the source drive to be removed from the machine and inserted into an external caddy and then the destination drive installed into the machine, then boot from the recovery CD and clone external to internal.
Just a note, all cloning and recovery of any partition/drive containing the OS should always be started from the recovery CD, that way Windows never gets in the way.
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Thanks for the helpful hints. The one variable I did not add is that I am doing this on a Mac. I am trying to build an image so that I don't have to go through the whole process of installing parallels and all that goes with it on my mac. I was hoping to just be able to boot off of an external drive and move the clone/full backup to another Mac. I have everything installed on a laptop and I'm trying to move this to a tower.
Do you still suggest I just do a full back up or is cloning the better way to go??
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Is there anyway to make a bootable windows disk on a firewire drive?? It seems like this can't be done....Any ideas?
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