Two clones on single HDD
Hi, new to forum; hope I'm posting in correct place. Thanks in advance!
Enviroment:
Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit all updates
Acronis 2010
I wish to clone a 30GB SSD and a 60GB SSD to a 160GB HDD. Can't figure out how to do it. Seems the new Clone capability deletes all partitions on the destination HDD -- can't find an option to stop it from doing that. Do I have to partition the destination HDD myself?

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The easiest way to think about this is that with ATI cloning is a way to copy a harddisk (make one physical disk like another) and doing backups is a way of copying files or partitions (storing the data/contents) to another location.
If you clone a 30 onto a 60, the 60 will be like the 30.
As Grover points out, you can make a backup of some or all of the partitions on a disk and the backup file can be stored on any valid partition that ATI recognizes. You can have multiple partitions in a single backup and you can have multiple backups stored int he same location (size permitting).
All backup programs do not use the nomeclature the ATI way.
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Thanks Gentlemen -- I've used ATI for 2 or 3 years now and very familar with the cloning capabilities; ATI has saved my bacon on several occasions LOL.
GroverH, ATI works just fine going from SSD to HDD, done it and tested it repeatedly to ensure it does work.
I was just hoping that I could find an option that rather than deleting all partitions on the destination drive it could determine a partition already exists and if enough unallocated space was left create another partition on the fly for the second clone.
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