Clone et al
My existing 120GB SSD (Windows 7 Pro x64) had only 7GB remaining. Bought a 512GB SSD and Acronis True Image 2015. (I used Control Panel/admin/storage to activate the new drive.)
Cloned drive C:\ to my 2TB hard drive knowing that it would destroy all existing data therein.
Restored (?) the cloned datum to the new 512GB SSD.
Now I have:
1. My 2TB hard drive with "cloned" data and nothing else - not even its' proper name or size.
2. The new 512GB SSD shows my old 120GB system data
3. My old 120GB SSD also shows my system data.
Questions:
Can I now format my 2TB hard drive and delete the 'cloned data'?
Do I have to use Master Boot Manager or its' ilk to boot from my new 512GB SSD?
Comment:
I tried to 'clone' my 120GB SSD to a new/empty 128GB flash drive but it failed and I am unable to ascertain why that happened.
Also tried to install a new program and was unable due to 'insufficient space'???
Thank you.
The question "Why the heck..." is only answerable by the lack of specificity in the on-screen prompts for this $50.00 software and the readers' failure to correctly READ my issues.
In the amount of time you took to furnish links to guides, my questions could have been curtly and succinctly answered therein.
Thanks for volunteering.
I would be surprised if your double clone operation first to the 2TB then back to the SSD left you with a bootable 512GB disk, but who knows... So, can you boot your computer on the resulting 512GB SSD?
You should:
- remove all disk from the disk except the original SSD an dmake sure the computer can boot on it normally,
- put the new SSD on the same connector as the old one, put the one one on another connector or on a SATA to USB adapter,
- boot the computer on the Acronis recovery medium to clone your 120GB disk onto the 512GB
Now, if you heed to the recommendations of fellows users like me or Tuttle, you would actually do a disk and partition backup to your 2TB disk (you would get an image file on that disk), and then restore this image on the new SSD.
If your 512GB SSD doesn't boot, you can reformat the 2TB disk, yes, as long as the data on your older 120GB disk is good, because you have to go back to the source to either clone or back up and restore.
First, thank you for this reply.
Now the current status of this "software"...whose file sizes had to be corrected (using CHKDSK /F) on each and every drive.
From Control Panel/Computer Management/Storage/Disk Management:
Original 120GB SSD shows as my boot drive (healthy, Crash Dump, Primary Partition).
New 512GB SSD shows (Healthy Active, Primary Partition in a 100MB partition) system reserve plus what appears to be a copy of the 120GB.
My 2TB internal hard drive shows (Healthy Active, Primary Partition in a 100MB partition) and yet another copy of the 120GB SSDs' files.
I am unwilling to use Acronis for anything more. If I were still reviewing software (as I did for SysOpt.com back in the day) Acronis wouldn't get more than two stars. Furthermore, Acronis is NOT intuitive nor are the screens...I've paid $50.00 for this, IMHO, useless software. I'm still booting from my original 120GB SSD and I'm going to keep one copy of the backup and format where necessary. Then proceed to reinstall all of the things I lost from my 2TB internal hard drive.
Thank you.