Using True Image Home Clone Function-Problem and Solution

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I used to use Ghost on my desktop to clone my first internal HDD to my second internal HDD, which was my preferred backup method. With Windows XP (SP3), Ghost stopped working, so I switched to Acronis True Image Home, which worked superbly. I could even clone my internal HDD to an external HDD with no problems. This was all done on a desktop computer.

A different story, however, with my new laptop, running Vista. I tried to clone my solitary internal HDD to a new large external HDD. Each time the cloning procedure began properly, but abruptly stopped in the middle and locked up my laptop. I had to remove the battery to restore life to the laptop. At that point I did not know if the problem was with my new external HDD (Western Digital), with Vista (MS) or with Acronis True Image Home. I looked for solutions on-line. The drive was fine, since I hooked it up to my desktop and used the clone function successfully.
The solution came from Acronis on-line support, for which I am grateful. There were problems along the way, which I will share with you. The solution was for me to download an ISO file, burn it to a disk, then use the disk to boot up the laptop and use the clone function.
Easier said than done! I was not familiar with burning ISO files to disk. I tried several freeware burners and Roxio CD creator (which came with my laptop). Each program said the file was copied to the disk, but when I looked at the disk with Windows Explorer, or PowerDesk Pro, the DISK WAS BLANK! (or so I thought). (I used up a lot of CD-R disks!) Very frustrating until I did some research and found out that disks burned from an ISO file will NOT SHOW UP with Windows Explorer.
So I decided to try cloning, with what I thought was a blank disk. I put the disk in the drive and then restarted the laptop. When I tried to do the clone, I got a cryptic error message, and the clone procedure was aborted.
I finally figured out that as the laptop booted up, I had to press the F12 key and then select the CD Drive from the boot menu. This did the trick! The Acronis True Image that was actually on the disk, came up with a different appearing menu. I invoked the clone function, set up the parameters, and there it was: a perfect clone was created on my external HDD!
As it is said, “The devil is in the details!” I hope that anyone else experiencing this problem will benefit from my experience and avoid some of the pitfalls I encountered.
Tue, 09/22/2009 - 07:05
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When you clone with ATI, you boot into a Linux OS environment. If you start the clone from within Windows, then the Windows hdisk reboots into Linux. If you use the ATI bootCD, that Cd boots Linux. The OS loaders are necessarily the same on both instances so sometimes us the BootCd will work where an operation started in Windows will not and vice versa.

Alsok, don't forget to remove one of the hdisks after cloning so that both will remain bootabable.

Tue, 09/22/2009 - 10:56
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