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Clone a Part of 2000 GByte HDD to a 480 Gbyte SSD

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Hi there,

I own a copy of Acronis 2013 True Image, run Windows 7 64 bit on a 2 TB HDD.

To fasten my laptap I wanted to clone the boot partition C and the partition holding all the program executeables to a SSD of 480 Gb (netto 457 GB).

First I initialized the SSD, so that it became visible in the Disk Management. Then I placed the SSD in the HDD bay and the HDD in a 2nd bay. When starting up Acronis True Image 2013 I can choose the source disk, but when I try to choose the destination disk of my SSD is grayed out.

HDD topology: my C partition is 260 GB, followed by an unallocated part of 47 GB, followed by the D partion which is 160 GB, and followed by the E and F partitions which have 750 GB each.

My plan was just to move C and D to the new SSD !   It seems to be impossible, therefore two alternative approaches:

Alternative approch_1: would it help to copy the contents of E (750 GB) and F (750 GB) to another disk and delete them afterwards, so that the used size of the 2000 GB HDD would be reduced to 420 GB, which is smaller than the size of the SSD (480 GB) and try afterwards to clone ?  I have the feeling that this would bring nothing, because the actual size of the HDD would stay 2000 GB, which could not be cloned - or ?

Alternative approach_2: would it make sense to backup partitions C and D to the SSD ?  I think it will not be the same as if I had cloned them - or ?  Is this possible anyhow and would I be able to start my system from a back-up version ?

Soory it's difficult I know - or perhaps not - pleeeaaase let me know !

Kr., Michael

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Extension to what I said before:

In the meantime I tried to backup my boot partition of the HDD to the boot partition of the SSD, but Acronis is creating a *.tib file on the SSD instead of making a clone copy.

I aklso found no choice to make the backup bootable although this wa mentioned in the user guide in chapter 3.4 ' Backing up partitions and disks' .

Do I have to backup to another HDD before I recover the backup to my SSD ?

 

Hello Michael, please my response to this question in your post in the ATIH 2016 Forum.

http://forum.acronis.com/forum/117610

Hi Steve,

I looked to one of the backup and restore videos:   https://forum.acronis.com/forum/117004

It looked all quite simple. So I created a new backup, not sector-by-sector, but the complete system partition. I stored it to one of my data partitions on the same disk than the backed-up partition.

When I tried to recover I was able to locate the created TIB-file. Good.

The problem was, that the locations to which I was allowed to recover was containing only the location from which I made the backup, i.e. the original HDD. At this time the SSD was inserted into the 2nd media bay and should have been perfectly visible for Acronis True Image and therefore had to be on the list of restore locations.   I tried it the other way around, SSD in 1st media bay (place of hard disk) and HDD in 2nd media bay. The result was the same: backup-file visible, recover location SSD invisible / not offered.

For background info I attach a screenshot from the disk management showing both disks.

Can you tell me what I did wrong, or what I have to do to make the SSD become visible in the list of restore locations ?

Kr., Michael

 

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Hi Steve,

The problem got solved !

It was a mechanical problem. My SSD is just 7mm thick, my HDD 9.5mm. So when I moved the SSD into the disk slot it didn't connect, because the connectors where located 2.5mm higher. After I improvised with a piece of folded magazine which I moved under it, the SSD was able to fit into the connectors and it became visible in the restore view. 

I successfully restored in the meantime the backup of my primary partition to the SSDs primary partition. I was even able to start into Windows 7 64bit.

Now I'm about to backup my program partition D (just the downloaded executables, documentation, keys etc.) from my old HDD, to recover it to the future program partition of my new SSD.

After that I will be done.

Thanks in any case for you support. I can recommmend Acronis True Image to everyone, it's a very mature, reliable, user friendly tool with great support from companpy experts.

Hi Michael, glad to hear this problem is solved for you and hope all goes well with the remaining actions you have planned.