Cloning from smaller to larger drive
Does TI Home 2012 fully support cloning to a larger drive? I had read post from people using an earlier version indicate the target drive's available space was limited to the size of the source drive. I know Disk Director would allow readjusting the partition, but hoping TI would handle the partition so I wouldn't need to buy two products.
At this point, I haven't purchased either TI Home or Disk Director.
Yes, 2012 cloning will clone to a larger drive but be aware of certain features.
If you choose the automatic mode, 2012 will proportionally expand the partitions (except the active partition) so the user has no choice over which partitions are expanded.
It is better to choose the manual mode of cloning so you can choose which partitions are expanded.
Cloning should be done from the bootable media CD. If the computer is a Thinkpad, then additional steps are needed.
More of the experienced users prefer to do a disk option backup (all partitions) and then do a restore of the backup restoring each partition individually as to have control over partition sizes. Using the backup/restore method, the master disk is not at risk of a user or mechanical malfunction as it is during the cloning operation.
For more info, click on the first line of signature below and locate index item #3-CC about manual cloning to a larger disk.
Unless you have an immediate harware issue, would suggest backup and restore rather than cloning.
The hard drive has been showing signs of failure - we have copied all the data files off, but want to replace the drive before any further issues.
We don't want to reload software onto a new drive, as some of the software was downloaded from companies no longer in business, hence the appeal of cloning.
I'm assuming the Acronis backup/restore doesn't covers the OS/ registry. Is this not true?
Thanks for the reference material GroverH. Didn't like reading about possible damage to source drive. A bit surprised at the chance, as I would only think the heads are only reading and wouldn't destroy - that is unless they pulse when something like a power glitch occurs.
'm assuming the Acronis backup/restore doesn't covers the OS/ registry. Is this not true?
If you include all partitions in your backup, and then restore all partitions, then your new disk will be no different than if cloned--either method will produce the same result. Probably the most frequent error when cloning is an error by the user in selecting the wrong disks as source and target--just to mention one possibility. If power is disrupted during the cloning function, there have reports of both disk non-usable for data.
Thanks for the additional info
Trying to increase my laptop HD from 320G to 640G.
Already created a backup TIB file on an external HD (about 271G).
How do I get that disk image to restore to the new HD?
I booted with the TI v10 CD and it doesn't recognize the new 640G HD...even after I partitioned, formated, and even loaded XP onto it.
What am I missing?
TIA
Did you make a change in the BIOS settings for the new drive? Was the recovery CD seeing the older drive right?
It would be strange that nothing changed except the disk size but the new disk wouldn't be recognized ...
hi there
ok i see this in google search about my acronis only cloning from large hd to small.
just so you you know there is a serious error in coding that can prevent this
i am searching around the net for any work arounds but i just cloned a 150 to a 600 in as is mode after both the proportoinal and automatic failed after the boot
i have been a paid user for at least 10 years and i finally noticed this behavior since i have to have a span of times to notice back up behavior who does that more than necessaty
good luck and cloning is the only reason i bought this software so save your naysaying and bowing down to the company for someone else i am a practical person who whants expidient things that do thier job not software you have to work around or make excuses for like windows
Richard, these forum topics you have posted these comments to are all very old (5 or more years so) and relate to old / obsolete versions of Acronis True Image.
For any users considering cloning, whether from larger drives to smaller drives or the opposite, or even doing a one to one clone, then the key advice is always make a full disk backup before attempting this type of action.
See topic: [IMPORTANT] CLONING - How NOT to do this!!! for further advice on this subject - this applies to any cloning action for any version of this product, not just ATIH 2017 (the forum section where the topic was posted).