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Clone to external USB disk drive Win 7

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Hello!

I am a newbie but tried to find answer on FAQ. Acn someone asnwer, please.

I have tried to clone a disk to an external USB dirsk drive but it seems impossible. The tutorial says Win 7 does not suport it. However, my Dell 3020 BIOS support boot from external USB drive. So why cannot this be done?

Also find that Acronies True image do not reallu see all partitions on an external USB Disk drive only the entire disk. 

How to clone an internal disk in my Dell 3020 that does allow any more than 1 internal HDD? Though I could attach an additional internal HDD and go fron there but there are no expansion ppssibilities for that.

Thanking in advance fron the advanced users here!

Merry Christmas from Stockholm Sweden 

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You may have to do a complete disk backup to a usb drive or a network drive. Creat a usb bootable recovery media via True Image. Shutdown, install the new drive, boot from the recovery media, attempt a restore from the usb or network drive to the new drive.

 

I have done this several times, with pretty good results. Make sure you read the warnings and instructions for creating the bootable recovery media, and test that it will boot and see the external device you store your backup on (usb or network) prior to removing the original drive.

 

My Dell Zinio HD does not recognize a "new" drive, so I, can't do this on this system. It worked on my HP Pavillion, and Gateway laptops though.

 

Good luck. And Merry Christmas to you as well.

LC

Lots of thanks LC - but thell me is a disk backup the same as cloing the disk? Though the option of back ups only were for files...

Regards Kari 

Hi Kari,

yes, if you create a full disk backup you get exact copy of all data you have on the drive.
This article may provide more information: www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/ATI2016/#27837.html

Thank you,