Pulling out the HDD due to cloning (is it reasonable? Esp. for laptors)
In the instruction for cloning of drives there was a hint, that the source drive must be pulled out from the laptop in order to install the (new) destination HDD on its place. Is it correct, that the source drive must then be connected via USB? If so, I obviosly need to buy an SATA-USB adapter...
Is it also possible to clone the source HDD to an external USB-HDD (without pulling out) and then from the external USB-HDD to the new internal HDD (this spares me the USB-SATA adapter and makes the risk of physical damage of both HDDs by mounting the adapters and so on lower)?
P.S: The drive to clone is 120 GB Hitachi HDD hts5425 (SATA). That is an internal laptop HDD (DELL 500). The laptop is already old, but it's cute and functions good, so I want save it alive =)
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If you remove the source drive and connect it via usb, how do you then invoke the Acronis program from a blank internal drive???
Smoky
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Here are some recently updated instructions from Acronis.
2931: Cloning Laptop Hard Disk
http://kb.acronis.com/content/2931
As in the past and still holds, IMHO, your best chance of success is to
1. Remove the old disk and install the new blank disk in same place and same connectors.
2. Mount the old source disk in an another alternate location such as an internal bay, or external docking station or external usb enclosure, etc.
3. Boot from the TI bootable media and perform the clone.
4. shutdown and disconnect all other disks.
5. Reboot with only the new clone attached.
6. Instead of performing the clone, Many of us prefer not to use the clone procedure as there is some risk to the host involved. Instead, many of us prefer to do a full disk backup and then restore the backup onto the new blank disk. Target disk still must be attached in its intended boot position. Restoring a backup will produce the same results as the cloning process with no risk to the host.
7. While there are other methods possible, this is my suggested procedure.
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Smoky wrote:If you remove the source drive and connect it via usb, how do you then invoke the Acronis program from a blank internal drive???
Smoky
The boot disc you create from the program has a system on it (live disc) and will allow you to see the new drive. It will rename your drives so learn some identifying features of the drive that holds your backup that way you can distinguish it from the new one. My new one said Unallocated I think because it was blank.
I backed up to an External Hard Drive via USB (the backup was about half the actual size of the drive it was backing up) from the bad internal drive then placed the new drive in the machine and recovered from the USB drive to the new drive.
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