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external USB 1tb hard drive partitiond into 4 drives

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I cant create a clone mage without cronis True Image home 2009 saying It will delete all the data on the partition. I have 1 of the partitions with data on it already. And of course that is where Acronis points to on the overwrite and deletethe data before it starts the backup. How come I can't pick which partition on my external USB harddrive to use.

ALso, I was told when I purchased this product, that I can create a clone image of a drive and install that image on antoher hard drive that is not the same manufacture or size of the orginal drive. I am starting to doubt this sofwares claim. Please let me know if this is possible because this is what I plan on doing.

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Frank:

"Clone" is the wrong function to use for what you want to do. A clone will make an exact copy of a disk and will include all partitions currently on the disk.

To do what you want to do, you need to make an "image". An image is a file that contains all of the information needed to duplicate a partition or multiple partitions to the same or to another disk. You can save this image file anywhere you like. Your external USB hard disk does not need to have multiple partitions on it. If you create multiple images they can all go on the same partition since they are simply files. Keep them in different folders if you'd like to stay organized but different partitions are NOT required.

To make an image, choose "Backup" and for the type of backup, choose "My Computer". Save the image to your external disk. To transfer it to another disk, choose "Restore". Select the image file as the source and the new disk as the destination. Once the restore process has completed you will have what you wanted.

thanks, will I be able to boot from the new image? The HD is only 74gb, and I want to put it on a 1tb HD and take the old drive out.

Thanks very much

Frank:

An image file has to be restored to a disk before you can boot from it. So let's see if I now understand what you are trying to do - you'd like to replace your 74 GB HDD with a 1 TB disk and you'd like the 1 TB disk to have 4 partitions. And you already have data stored on one of the partitions. Is this correct?

If you have a lot of room on the 1 TB disk and already have it partitioned, then you could consider doing as follows. Let's say you have the first partition reserved for the operating system, you have data on the second partition and you have two more partitions. If so, create an image of your existing 74 GB hard disk and store it on the second or third or fourth partition on the 1 TB disk, wherever it will fit.

Next, remove the 74 GB disk from the PC and install the 1 TB disk in its place. Boot your PC from the Acronis recovery CD and then restore the image from wherever it was stored to the first partition on the disk. Remember to restore the partition as "Active".

Am I close to describing what you want to do? You may also find some of the illustrated guides by forum member GroverH to be helpful. Look in the "sticky" posts near the top of the forum.

Hello Frank and K0LO,

Frank, K0LO has provided you with the correct instructions. I have also added a few information in your other thread.

Please reply to any of those threads if you have any additional questions, I'll be glad to help ypu.

Thank you.