Help understanding how to boot and operate from a cloned drive

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My machine (details below) has several internal hard drives. I want to prepare for a situation in which my c drive becomes inoperable; I want to be able to operate normally from another of the internals until I can replace the dead one at my un-panicked leisure.

What I THOUGHT I would do was clone the c (operating drive) to one of the other drives so that if the C drive failed I could just pull it out and boot from the other. I understood this was possible with a "bit-by"bit" cloning but I've learned that it doesn't work like I thought.

I emptied and formatted an alternate drive. I did a complete disc backup on the c drive and checked that the .tib file showed up on the alternate drive. (There's nothing else on that drive.) I then disconnected the c drive, and in BIOS specified hard drive for boot. Long story short, only way I successfully booted was from the Acronis recovery drive. The next step is not clear to me. Contrary to usual practice, I decided to ask before experimenting and screwing something up.

From the user manual I gather that what I need to do is boot with the Acronis disk, and then do a disk recovery from the .tib file to somewhere. Then if I reboot from this "somewhere" I will be able to operate normally from there while I replace the c drive.
Am I correct in this, and if so, where do I need to put the recovery output? Can I recover it onto the same (alternate) hard drive where the .tib file is? If I do so, will that drive be bootable? Does it have to be in a separate partition?

Machine info:
Win XP Pro SP 3
Acronis True IMage 2010, downloaded yesterday, still in trial period
Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.40GHz
3 G RAM
ASUS P5NSLI Motherboard
Hard Drives (both 250 GB, not partitioned):
C Drive Seagate ST3250620AS
Alternate Western Digital WDC 2500JS-00NCB1

Tue, 10/13/2009 - 18:54
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There are two ways to make one drive an exact copy of another using True Image.
1. Clone - in True Image there isn't a "bit by bit" clone ... it is simply clone.
2. Image, also called Backup followed by Recovery, also called Restore.

2 is the safer way to go until you get more comfortable using TRue Image. So if you have several internal drives, use one to restore to - do not use the present C drive.

Also give your drive unique names instead of the default, Local Disk. For instance if a drive is a Western Digital 30gb, name it something like Wd30.

If you want to try the Clone feature do what is called a reverse Clone ( and with the bootable Rescue CD). This is where you put the target drive in place of the C drive and connect the C drive in a Slave or Secondary position. But remember to disconnect the original before you do a first boot with the new clone. After a good first boot you can reconnect the original.

Tue, 10/13/2009 - 21:30
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You can not have a tib file on a hdd and recover to this hdd. To recover a bootable hdd a partition has to be overwritten, because there is more then just files that has to be copied. Having a tib on the same partition where the recovery is done will work for a files/folders restore not for system restore.

The easiest way to have a second hdd with a system copy is just clone it (copy PARTITION and MBR data to second hdd - not just copy the files). There are at least a dozen ways to do that. One of them is using acronis to backup and recover.

Wed, 10/14/2009 - 12:52
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Thanks very much to DwnNDirty and to Marcin Norek for quick and helpful responses. With this input I can forge ahead!

Thu, 10/15/2009 - 01:18