cloning
I want to clone my old PC to a new PC. I used Acronis to create a full backup to an external drive. Can I clone both the C and D drives in one operation or do I need to first clone the C disk and then clone the D disk?
Harley


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Thanks Steve, you gave me many good suggestions. My new Dell is expected to arrive on Oct 21 so I have lot of time to prepare. I talked to Acronis tech support about another problem and he said I could either clone or do a recovery. I am leaning toward cloning. He also said that since my old and new PC are both Dell with windows 10, I could use the bootable flash drive that I created with my old PC. I will take your advice and create one with my new PC.
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Harley, for migrating to new / different hardware then cloning should not be used, especially if laptops are involved.
The process documented for Acronis Universal Restore only uses Backup & Recovery, not cloning and the key advantage of using B & R is that you do not need to start removing any disk drives from either PC but instead store the backups on an external drive that is connected to each PC in turn during the process.
Most new laptops now come with NVMe SSD drives installed for the Windows OS drive hence my earlier comments about device drivers and having rescue media that is able to correctly recognise the target internal drive to allow backup data to be recovered to it. These NVMe drives also normally require UEFI boot mode and GPT partition format.
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