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Two clones on single HDD

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Hi, new to forum; hope I'm posting in correct place. Thanks in advance!

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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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TrueImage works at disk level when cloning so you cannot clone a single partition from a multi-partition disk' perform additive clones to the same disk.

However, you can perform an disk image backup and restore only the single partition to another drive. Whether you can do this with SSD is something I cannot answer. My response relates to SATA or IDE drives.

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.

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.