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Hi.  I just purchased True Image 2016 and was looking at the cloning option.  The first thing I noticed is that it said to put the source drive in a USB enclosure and the new drive inside the computer.  Is it really necessary to take the source drive out to do the clone.  When cloning before,  I've always been able to clone while both drives were installed inside the computer.  Seems like a lot of extra hassle.  Or maybe I just misread something.

Thanks for the help.

Jeff

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That instructions is specific to laptops but is good advice for all none the less.  Do you absolutely have to?  Probably not but with a laptop the issue is that most of them only have capacity for 1 internal disk.  any attached disk outside will be recognized as a removable disk.  Windows will not allow a removable disk to be bootable thus the instruction you refer to.

It is recommended here that any clone attempt be performed with the machine booted from the recovery media.  It is also recommended that you perform a full disk backup of the source disk prior to any clone attempt so that you have something to fall back on if things go wrong!

Thanks for the quick reply.  I must've missed the "laptop" part.  I knew about Windows not allowing the removable disk to be bootable.   Full disk backup already made so I guess I'm good to go. 

BTW, I saw where my backup was about 30% smaller than the source.  Are the backups compressed or do I have bad backup?  Also, it had a strange name..."Mydisks_full_b1_s1_v1.tib".  Is that correct?

Thanks,

Jeff

 

 

JNS wrote:

BTW, I saw where my backup was about 30% smaller than the source.  Are the backups compressed or do I have bad backup?  Also, it had a strange name..."Mydisks_full_b1_s1_v1.tib".  Is that correct?

Backups are compressed, and 30% is typical.

Backup name is correct.  "Mydisks" is the name you gave the backup. "full" is full backup. b1 ,s1, v1 are for versioning.  If your backup task has followon incremental backups, the next incremental will be named "Mydisks_inc_b1_s2_v1.tib"

The naming is logical.

FtrPilot

 

 

 

Good, thanks.  "My Disks" must've have been a default I missed.   Is there any problem with renaming that file after it has been named?

Jeff

Jeff,

Renaming is available, however, I beleive you would only be renaming the task.  I believe the file names would remain the same.  I would strongly recommend against renaming the files using Windows Explorer.

FtrPilot

If you rename the task in the TI application it should rename the backup file as well