Acronis 2011 - making an image from a SATA disc to use on a SSD
I have a MSI Laptop where the orginal disk has a C: and D: visible partitions and one or two invisible onnes for Recovery by F3 made by MSI.
Now I wanted to replace the original 500GB disk with a 128GB SSD disk, and I only want to have the C partition copied/cloned from the original disk.
So I made a Bootable media disc and used it to make a backup of C: to D: that is about 25GB (mybackup.tib)
Then I replaced the original disc with the SSD and connected the original disc to the PC using a USB external box.
Then I booted on the Bootable media disc again and tried to restore the backup to the SSD.
Its no problem finding the backup file, TI shows all discs and I can easily find my backup file.
But then what ?
Its getting a little confusing....
I can say that much, that it did not work to recover using the first image that I made when the original disc was in the laptop.
But then I made a second image having the disc attatched as a usb drive, and using that image I could restore the Boot partition to my new SSD drive installed in my laptop :)
The images were not the same size, I have no idea whats the difference between them.

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