Is there one simple and accurate process to use TI2013 to clone the C: disk?
Goal: Replace a 1TB system HDD by a 512GB SSD (Vertex4)
Boot Disk: 1TB total but just 196GB used (C: Boot, etc.), System Reserved 100MB (no letter) and 100MB partition (F:)
O/S: Windows 7 Pro x86
TI: Acronis True Image 2013 (full licensed version)
- I have a Black Widow BlackX eSATA+USB docking station but the eSATA is not recognized as the BIOS set-up my HDDs as SATA and not ACHI (it was the default... live & learn...)
- However, the BlackX & VERTEX4 SSD is recognized when using the USB portion.
- I tried CLONING via USB and selected the scaling option. At one point, I am told I need to reboot which is what I do. The computer reboots and starts the TI's application. However, after a few minutes and a couple of TI screens, the computer reboots and returns to the normal Win 7 screen. No error messages, nothing... but it failed to clone. (Is there a log file somewhere??
Now I read several threads and FAQs. However, some are VERY long and others are unclear or complex.
So my questions are simple:
Q1> Ïs there a simple way to clone the boot drive so I can use the new SSD drive in place of the HDD????
Q2> At this stage, would it be simpler to format the SSD, load the OS and start fresh? Granted, I will need to reinstall everything but this might be a bad thing... just time consuming.
Oh, if the "start fresh" path is suggested, I would set the BIOS to ACHI and not SATA. However, will this affect my other SATA-II drives (300GB and 1TB used for data)
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