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Cloning an HDD to an SSD - 
Can exclude [Not include a type of file [*.xyz] or/and a folder [C:/Users/x/y/z/xyz/]... when cloning...?
 

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See the ATI 2018 User guide section on Excluding items from cloning where it has information that should be helpful.

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Steve Smith wrote:

See the ATI 2018 User guide section on Excluding items from cloning where it has information that should be helpful.

Thanks for sharing the guide Steve. Precise and helpful as always.

Best regards. 

Steve Smith wrote:

See the ATI 2018 User guide section on Excluding items from cloning where it has information that should be helpful.

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Yes, that's exactly - the point to be answered...

Cloning using ATI 2018 or ACPHO, Do you Recommend booting from Bootable Acronis media - ATI 2018 or ACPHO and doing the cloning?

Linux Bootable Acronis media - ATI 2018 or ACPHO, are OK to be used?

This HP DESKTOP PC is 15 years old,

MBR/BIOS, DUAL-BOOT Win10Home/Win11Home, HDD 1TB.

HP Pavilion Elite m9372.gr Desktop PC, 8GB RAM DDR2, 64-bit/Intel Core 2 Quad.

 

I would always recommend using bootable media if using cloning but with the further strong recommendation that a full disk backup of the source drive be created first.

Linux based bootable media should be fine for a 15 years old desktop PC but please test booting that PC from the media and check that all looks good.

Normally SSD should initialised as MBR for such old PC… correct?

note

I have dual boot for this PC w10home/w11home

w11 - bypass restrictions installed and ok…

normally cloning, will it make any problems to w11home? Booting … or … else… ?

 

If your current drive is working fine with your dual boot setup for Win 10 / Win 11 then keep the drive format as it is, i.e. if it is currently MBR then keep that.

Cloning should copy the whole disk and its partitions so shouldn't upset the dual boot startup settings but it is always recommended to make a full disk backup for good measure any time before using cloning.

This PC has HDD 1TB to be cloned to 512GB SSD, and having Windows 11 home & Windows 10 home dual boot setup, no data having, as is old experimental and 16-years old PC… and tip to clone the partitions to a less capacity disk?

How much free space is available on the 1TB HDD - is there more that 600GB free space?

SSD's should have around 20% free space to deliver best performance.

I would strongly recommend making a full Disks & Partitions backup image of the HDD which would give you the option of restoring the backup in different ways, i.e. to recover everything and let Acronis try to reduce partition sizes automatically, or else recovering partitions manually and adjusting sizes yourself.