Cloning HDD on Windows XP Home Edition

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Hi,

I am supporting a friend with managing his computer (around 6-7 years old).

What the plan is intended to be is upgrading the computer with a new HDD.

The computer runs with an 160 GB SATA HDD (SATA 0) and one extra 2 TB SATA HDD has successfully been added (SATA 2), not initialised yet.

A clone is intended to take place - the OS is Windows XP Home Edition SP 2(!) not supporting full system backup (no diskette). I've tried to use Windows update, but it is rejected because the IE is too old (before version 5). I will fix this manually, although it will consume some time and it should end up with a modernised XP Home Edition SP 3 installation with a web browser not preventing from running Windows Update.

Maybe problems can be expected to arise - it is a BIG generation jump, but I hope to get access to all working tools needed. Recommendations on this point are highly appreciated.

Then a clone should be made from the old HDD to the new 2 TB HDD (a Western Digital WD2002FAEX).

Some questions arises:

- Will Acronis True Image 2013 run in this environment and be able to clone properly?

- Will the clone result in a bootable new system disc like the old 160 CD HDD so a true hardware excange can be made?

Grateful for thoughts on this mission and experiences from someone who has done similar things under such conditions,

The computer is a good one with 2.65 GHz processor, memory upgraded to max (2GB RAM) and now old HDD should be replaced with a modern 2TB HDD. No problem arised during installation, accepted by the BIOS and configured in manually (not PnP), visible in Device Manager.

I can see that the Western Digital has a software available which does exactly what I describe here, but is specifically designed for the internal Western Digital devices. Why the WD considered it necessary to make a WD Edition version of the Acronis software for this purpose I do not know, but it seems trustworthy.

Link: http://support.wdc.com/product/downloaddetail.asp?swid=119
(Acronis True Image WD Edition Software)

I'm grateful for all comments and experiences of this - of course, I don't want the source disk to be affected in some way nor having content deleted! The process of cloning should be restartable if something goes wrong at first try!

Many thanks in advance for your kind cooperation!

Thu, 01/17/2013 - 20:02
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Since you are using 2013, you would be best advised to download the Acronis Rescue media ISO file from your Acronis account and perform any operation such as backup or clone from the Rescue Media before making any changes to the Windows XP original disk. You would not need to install True Image 2013.

If you have access to an externally connected drive or spare internal drive, you could make a full disk based backup while booted to the Rescue Media, and then use the created image file (.tib) to restore to the new drive, instead of cloning. The result would be the same, but is much safer and provides for more control during the restore.

If you must use the clone function, be sure to place the new drive in the system where the original drive is now, and connect the original drive as the second drive in the system. Boot to the Rescue CD and perform the clone operation, cloning from the original drive to the new drive. Once the clone is finished, be sure to disconnect the original drive before booting the system up the first time, or you may run into problems with Windows starting up properly.

I would not install any updates to the original drive, nor would I install Acronis True Image on it. Either backup the original drive to a third drive and restore the image to the new drive, or perform the clone as suggested.

Once you have the cloned drive up and running, then make any changes (install SP3 and any updates) to the new drive.

If you were to run into any issues and you created a full disk backup that you used for restore to the new drive, you could do the restore again and start over. If you you cloned the drive, you would have to perform the clone again to start over.

I find it is always best to leave the original disk untouched if cloning, or backing up and restoring to a new drive.

Thu, 01/17/2013 - 20:57
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Many thanks for the comment!

I now know about how to solve this and about the problem arising when two boot enabled HDDs are attached to the same computer during boot (problem described in other threads).

Kind regards,

Axel

Fri, 01/18/2013 - 14:05