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Using Acronis True Image Home 11.0
XP Professional

This may seem a weird question but..

I am trying to do a 'clone' of my drive. This drive contains two partitions.
C: boot and E: apps

I set the Acronis program to backup - hoping this means 'clone' - this drive.
Create Full Backup destination to an external drive: d:\Backup.tib

Operation 1 of 3
Creating partition image
Hard disk: 1
Files system: NTFS
Size: 47.93

is currently running. -assuming this is the C: partition.. Im assuming Operation 2 would be creating the partition image for E.

OK... here comes the question.
Does Acronis need to restart the computer to get all the boot information that makes up the C: boot drive? Most of the cloning programs I have tried require a reboot during the process, and I have noticed that Acronis I am using does not reboot - is it getting everything? This is quite important. Once I do this back up I need to replace the C drive with a new drive -larger- due to minimum space issues I am experiencing. I want to buy a new drive and place the backed up - 'clone' - to the new drive w/o having to reinstall all the stuff on the E: apps partition of the drive.

Can someone please tell me if I understand this correctly? Will it do a full backup of my boot drive? If I copy this backup to a new hard drive, can i put it in place of the older smaller drive, and be able to boot from it?? I work on my computer from home and losing the ability to boot is frightening.

Side Note: Is there a procedure or tutorial that might assist me in this challenging adventure that you can direct me to for additional help?

Any and all suggestions are GREATLY APPRECIATED.

Regards
PL

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THis is the nice things with ATI. It creates a sector level image (wrongly called clone when it is a backup) without needing any reboot.

Check this thread for beginners guidance.

http://forum.acronis.com/forum/25648

That's a backup, which you would then need to restore to something.

Cloning is in the tools menu and does it in one step; a single read off the original to a single write to the target, as opposed to two of each in a backup / restore situation. Cloning will wipe your target disk.

Cloning does require a reboot to 'maint mode' where the copy takes place. restoe might - depends on the target of the restore.