HOw to clone a smaller drive with True Image 2020
I have a computer with a 256GB SSD and a 1TB hard drive. The 256GB contains the operating system and all of my files. The hard drive has two partitions on it, but has no data in either partition. I would like to clone the 256GB SSD with a 1 TB SSD I have as a spare. If I simply clone the 256 GB SSD with True Image 2020 onto the 1 TB SSD, can I replace the 256 GB SSD with the 1 TB SSD and retain the 1 TB capacity of the drive, or will the cloning process simply turn my 1 TB SSD into a 256 GB SSD? Thanks.
Doug


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Thanks for that. The computer is a desktop I have had for a couple of years but used very little. My main computer was a laptop, (that died with a motherboard issue), so I used the SSD from the laptop to copy over all my data files onto the desktop through a usb port. I was surprised I could see everything on the laptop ssd through the desktop computer file system. Now that I have this spare SSD from the old laptop, I would like to put it to use in the desktop (the laptop SSD is quite new - I replaced the laptop hard drive with a SSD to improve performance and I used Acronis True Image 2020 to clone the laptop hard drive onto the laptop SSD).
Not sure if I fully understand what you are saying. In creating the backup, what is the backup on - the old laptop SSD, or the 1 TB hard drive (with nothing on it, apart from two partitions) and then recover that backup to the old laptop SSD?
Thanks again.
Doug
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Doug, ideally the Backup of the current working OS drive should be created and stored on a third external USB storage drive but if you have sufficient free space on your second internal drive then you can use that drive by storing the backup image in a new folder on that drive.
Note: the backup image must not be stored on any drive that will be the target for the recovery operation.
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Ok, thanks. What is the difference between cloning a drive and creating a backup image of a drive? I always thought they were the same thing, but from what has been posted above, they appear to be different.
Thanks.
Doug
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Thanks. I always thought cloning a drive and making a backup image were one and the same thing. From what is described above, they are not - what are the differences between the two techniques?
Thanks,
Doug
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Doug, please see the link in my signature for Difference between Backup and Disk Clone which has a lot of information about this subject.
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