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Hi Guys,

Quite a simple question really.... I have a laptop with a 500GB Hitachi hard drive. I have bought a brand new toshiba 1TB hard drive. I'm looking to remove the 500GB and install the 1TB....

Will ATIH12 allow me to copy the entire system (drivers, all installed programs, all docs etc etc and move it to the 1tb so I can simply install the 1TB and resume using my laptop as if it was shipped with my 1TB?

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With some caveats, yes True Image will do what you want.

If you decided to use the clone function, you would get the best result by putting the new drive into the laptop and the current drive into a USB caddy, then boot from the recovery CD and 'reverse' clone from there. You can either downlaod the recovery CD from your Acronis account after registering the product or you can burn it from within the program.

The alternative is to make a complete disk image and restore from that.

The caveats are, that Toshiba might have a non standard drive layout, which will require an extra step if cloning but no step if recovering a complete disk image.

Yes, Acronis True Image Home will do what you want. But, my best advice is: Do not Clone! Instead, do one extra step and create a full disk Backup to an external drive. If ever you need to return to that image state, you would do a full disk Restore/Recovery.

There is rarely a need to Clone. Really, Backup is safer and more flexible. Many users encounter problems Cloning which they would not have if they has instead used Backup.

1. Don't use Clone. Do a full disk Backup, selecting the entire disk, and a Restore. The end result will be the same as Clone, but with many advantages.

2. Check out the many user guides and tutorials in the left column of this forum, particularly ATIH 2012 - Getting Started and Grover's True Image Guides which are illustrated with step-by-step screenshots.

A full disk backup, selecting the disk checkbox rather than individual partitions, includes everything. It includes everything that a clone would include.

The difference is that while a clone immediately writes that information a single time to another drive, a backup is saved as a compressed .tib archive. As such, multiple .tib archives may be saved to a single backup drive, allowing for greater redundancy, security and flexibility.

Once a full disk image .tib archive is restored to a drive, the result is the same as if that drive had been the target of a clone done on the date and time that the backup archive was created.

Clone is riskier because we've seen situations where users mistakenly choose the wrong drive to clone from and to, thus wiping out their system drive.