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Hi folks..

Just trying out this software... it certainly is well reviewed. :)

My question is pretty basic.

I want to switch a hard drive into another computer, but, not being sure it will run on that computer, I want to make a clone copy of the hard drive onto another drive.

Can I, or should I, run TI from a thumb drive, or a third drive, to achieve this? Or can I run it from the source drive?

Can I install TI to a thumb drive?

Thanks

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You can make a clone starting the process within Windows but many users will tell you to boot up the rescue environment to do it.

Note that a clone to TI is to make a copy of the entire physical drive - you can't clone selected partitions.

The common rescue media is a CD but the builder will allow you to create it on a thumb drive. Note that this environment is Linux.

Immediately after cloning, shut down the machine and remove the cloned HD. Do not boot the machine with it attached since Windows can get confused if it sees two identical drives on boot up. After the first successful boot it is OK to have them both attached.

I don't know where it is in TI2010 but be very careful that you DO NOT have the option selected that wipes the source drive after cloning!

Windows will not be happy with the second machine unless all the hardware is absolutely identical because of driver issues. You may be able to get the drivers fixed up and the Windows repaired. A common recommendation is to revert the display to vanilla VGA before you make the clone to remove video drivers from the problem.

Suggest you look at the TI User Guide and the guides listed under Groverh's signature. Search out any post by Groverh .

I am another new user. I purchased True Image Home 2010 the other day, and tried to install it on my dual core computer running Windows XP-pro.
My old hard drive is 1.5TB, divided into 4 FAT 32 partitions and the new one is 2.0TB unformatted.

My understanding was that the cloning operation had to start from a CD, so as to free the old boot disk of operating system copying complications. When I tried that, I discovered that both of the SATA drives were detected to be SCSI not SATA. That attempt was a waste of time.
Then I tried to install the program on one of the old partitions that does not have the windows program files. I saw a prompt to check for latest updates, which I did. Apparently the new version is now installed on my old hard drive partition D/ACRONIS

Should I be concerned with the version of the old and/or new program?

Now I have one version in an ACRONIS folder on the hard drive, and an older version on the original CD.

Since I believe I need to initiate the cloning operation from a CD, I need to ask: How should I copy the updated files from hard drive partition D to a fresh CD?
Thanks for your assistance.
DRD

Douglas,

I'm not sure if Linux reporting the Sata drives as SCSI is actually a problem. If the drives were recognised and you could navigate within the one that had files on it then you should be OK. I say this because hard drives internally use SCSI commands all other IDE, SATA etc are on top of these commands, so it might be that Linux recognises your SATA by the SCSI description. Having said that I don't recall my Sata drives being noted as that, but I'll have a look and report back.

How did you make the original rescue CD?

Whether the one that can be made from within TI 2010 6053 uses a different build to 5055 I don't know. Often the answer is yes.

You can also downlaod from your Acronis account an ISO version of the rescue CD. This has more up to date drivers.

You didn't mention which build it reports itself as.

I would also suggest that you format your drive as NTFS.

I tried your suggestion, to clone from the old "SCSI" drive to the new SATA. Guess what, TI said it couldn't clone an empty drive. It considered the old SCSI drive as empty!

Surely others have run into this snag with the proliferation of large SATA drives, and the complication of updating the ATI Home program.

What is the right way to update the original CD with a new version?

How can I tell what version I have on my original disc, and what the version of the downloaded files may be?

Sorry I am such a dumb bell!
DRD

Hello all,

Let me comment this situation.

Please note Acronis True Image Home can restore the image from one computer to another only if both computers have absolutely identical hardware configuration. If hardware configuration of your computers is different, we recommend you to use Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 with Acronis Universal Restore option. With this option you will be able to restore one image to computers with dissimilar hardware.

In case if your system does not boot from cloned drive (surely this transfer should be performed between two identical computers, because clone to dissimilar hardware is not possible), please provide us with the exact error so we can investigate the situation.

Douglas, I'd recommend you to download the version which is based on another loader (the version has some extended list of drivers and startup parameters). We have implemented the possibility to download the appropriate ISO file after logging into your account (the serial number should be registered). This option is available for the current and (n-1) versions. Please log in to your account, go to the Registered products and downloads section -> Bootable media. Download the file.
To get access to the ISO you should first register Acronis software.

You can find more information on how to burn an ISO image to a CD here.

With this CD, please try to create a backup and restore the image to your PC, it should work. The information about backup procedure is described in Chapter 6 of this User's Guide.

Additionally to this, you are welcome to ask me any other questions concerning Acronis, and I will assist you further.

Thank you.