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Boot Media Question

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I need to transfer (via clone or via backup/restore) a laptop 250G internal drive onto a new 500G internal drive.

My intention is to either:
(a) copy the old drive onto a 2Tb external mass-storage hdd (on which I already have data but still have 1Tb free), swap the new drive into the machine, then restore from the external hdd onto the new drive
or
(b) put the old drive into an external usb enclosure, put the empty new drive into the laptop, and boot from an Acronis boot CD.

Question 1: In either case, I would need to have Acronis make a boot CD without data, containing the material (o/s, drivers) needed to do the clone/restore from the undoubtedly large data file on the external usb device. Can Acronis do this?

Question 2: If I simply have Acronis make my 2Tb external mass-storage hdd into a boot device, will it destroy the 1Tb of data I already have stored there?

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You can't boot from the external HD.

You would create, or download, the ATI2013 bootable Rescue Media. To do restores, you would boot from the ATI2013 bootable Rescue Media (either CD-R or USB flash drive). It does not contain any of the backup data, it is simply a bootable application.

Thanks. Do I then understand correctly that:
- The data can sit on a USB port (either in form of the old internal drive in an external enclosure, or in form of an ATI backup of same).
- ATI includes or can create bootable media with all drivers needed to access the data?
- I don't need the ATI Plus/Premium add-on for anything I've described?

ATI creates backups in .tib image format. To restore, you select one of those .tib images to restore.

You must determine if the ATI2013 bootable Rescue Media works for your system. Boot from it and see if it recognizes your hardware, including your external drive. If it recognizes your hardware and you can backup to and restore from an external drive, then you don't need the Plus Pack.