Cloning Laptop Solid State Drive

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I have a Toshiba laptop with a 128 GB SSD. I want to buy a second SSD, exactly like the original, and clone it using Acronis True Image Home 2011. Do I just boot into the recovery environment, select clone, and then take out the original disk, replace it with the Clone, "restore" to the Clone, and I am done? Or is it more complicated? Are there compatibility issues for use of the TI 2011 Home product with Solid State Drives? I have to use the exact same drive by Toshiba, anyway, so the hardware will be the same. Where is the most complete documentation for Cloning as a back up and restore strategy at Acronis? Thanks in advance for any help available, here.

Wed, 06/01/2011 - 14:59
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Hello Gregory!

Thank you for your question, I will be glad to address it!

Do not worry, SSD drives are fully supported by Acronis True Image Home 2011. The best and most recommended way to clone the laptop drive is to take out the original drive, attach it via USB to the machine, insert the target drive instead of the original, then boot from the recovery CD and perform cloning operation. After that you need to shut down the machine and disconnect the original drive and boot from the new one. Please find more details in this Cloning Laptop Disk Guide.

You might also want to use the most updated bootable media for this, so I would advise you to download the most recent ISO from your account, burn it onto the CD and perfrom cloning from it.

Should you need anything else or have any further questions - feel free to contact us at your earliest convenience, we will be happy to help you!

Thank you!

Wed, 06/01/2011 - 15:11
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A Toshiba authorized repair center is willing to show me how to remove and replace the drive, so it sounds like I am "in business" as we say! I will do as you suggest and download the latest ISO of the recovery environment. I just installed the latest version of True Image Home, so I am hopeful this will all work as expected.

Fri, 06/03/2011 - 02:28