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Two issues. I have a small disk on my IBM 7373APU Vista machine that keeps filling up and causing problems. Can I put in a second SATA drive (whatever that is) and have Acronis create the new disk just like the old one plus all the extra space? Then I can remove the old one? Or use it somehow as a secondary device?
Two, I have a Dell with a 148GB drive. I would like to back it up every day to a second drive to look exactly like the first so that in the event of a failure, I can somehow restore to a new disk to look exactly like the old one. I don't want it to take a lot of time, which I'm guessing it will, if you do it from scratch every day. I currently back up data, but that's obviously not the entire disk, so I would have a problem restoring if I had a complete disk failure.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Mike

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Yes you can restore to a larger drive. See the Grover Guides for more info or check the Userguide.

RE 2nd question, you can clone one drive to another and then the 2nd will have the same image as the first IF AND ONLY IF you do not try to boot with both drives present.

You'd be much better off backing up the 1st drive-- you could prob fit many backups on one target drive and so have more than one backup to rely on.