cloning a disk partition
I have a partitioned hybrid drive for physical drive 1 containing C: (the system bootable logical drive) and H: an active drive which I use for working files. The C: partition is bootable with Windows XP. I would like to clone the C: partition only to drive F: so that F: is bootable with all of my C: drive information if I remove the hybrid drive. I have tried True Image and Migrate and I cannot find out how to clone only the C: drive. It always wants to clone the other partition of physical drive 1.
Is there a way to do this with Acronis products?
Thanks
David
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That's something I never thought of. I always figured that doing this meant it would not be bootable.
I'm trying to form a hard drive that could just be straight swapped in if a drive crashes, leaving me only to update the most recent things I've changed or new files.
Could I cold swap just like this if I do a partition back up like this? Does it also copy over the MBR and Windows?
Thanks for your help.
David
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When you perform a partition level back up, you can back up the MBR and Track0 as well. You don't typically restore the MBR to a disk where only one partition is being restored.
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Hello,
I have tried to clone my OS (wind 7 64bit), Got Bootmgr missing, tired everything I can find but no luck. Tried calling support in US but got dropped out. Have been waiting for live chat to come through for ages. Phone support will now not answer me.
How can I contact someone in Australia - or anyone who can actually solve this.
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What operations did you go through exactly, can describe the steps you took?
Did you really clone or did you make an image then restored?
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