Disk clone of XP 64 Pro upgraded to Win7 32

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Hi folks.

Summary : I may have screwed up a dual-boot XP 64 Pro / Win 32 Pro system and now want to clone my original disk before doing a total system reset/rebuild.

I'm computer-savvy, but this is my first attempt at cloning.

I got a real cheap IBM Intellistation M Pro 9229, which came with XP 64 pro -- and also got a Win 7 Pro upgrade.

I used good ole Partition Magic 8 to split off a new partition for W7.

I upgraded to Win7 -- went smoothly (except for the sound driver), giving me a dual-boot system.

However, when I tried to create a 3rd (logical) partition PM wouldn't run from XP 64 ... just hung on the reboot ... leaving me with a sneaking suspicion that it might have screwed up on the original partitioning.

So I bought DD 10 (build 2160) and a 500G Sata drive -- with the intent of cloning everything, and then completely rebuilding the original disk from the dreaded system-restore partition.

I 'upgraded' from 2160 to 2239 ... (which I now read 'has serious bugs')

At last .... some questions : How do I clone from DD ?

a) Use TI ?

The documentation says to use 'DD Lite' which comes with TI (which I have on a Vista Laptop) -- but the clone feature seems to have GONE from DD Hevy / 10.

I'll try making a boot CD from Vista (I bought TI as a download) and see if it runs on the new system.

If it DOES run .. I'll take the advice here and swap Sata cables so that the new drive is in its target position.

b) Is an MBR copy + Partition Copy a clone ?
Does this also need a reverse-copy?

c) From another post I see that DD isn't Win7 ready !!!???
Does that mean I'm scr*wed whatever I do?

Thu, 02/04/2010 - 01:41
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Hello Alan,

Thank you for your post. I will do my best to assist you.

To answer your first question, since you are using Disk Director 10 and Acronis True Image 2009 Home, both of which, do not officially support Windows 7, the best way to proceed would be to use the bootable media of our software, to work with your Windows 7 operating system.

I would also suggest to create a backup and then restore it to a new hard drive, because this way is more reliable then cloning. Where as cloning simply copies or moves the contents of one hard drive to the other, a backup is an image file which contains a snapshot of your operating system with all the files. For additional information, please refer to this article.

The answer to your 2nd question is a Yes, however, can you elaborate on - Does this also need a reverse-copy?, please?

To answer your 3rd question, Acronis Disk Director 10 does not support Windows 7, the current products that do, are Acronis Backup and Recovery 10 and Acronis True Image 2010 Home.

I can also suggest the following articles for your convenience:

 - Cloning Laptop Hard Disk

 - Windows Assigns a New Letter to the Cloned Drive

 - Resizing Partitions during Disk Cloning

 - Acronis Product Fails to Clone or Restore After Reboot

 - Cloning a Windows System to Different Machine

 - Transferring a System from IDE to SATA Hard Disk and Vice Versa

Let me know if you have any other questions or require additional assistance.

Thank you.

Tue, 05/04/2010 - 16:12
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