Help A Noob Clone?
Hi, I'm looking for advice. I'm pretty adept at stuff, but I've never done this.
I have a Dell 1737 laptop with an open bay and a 320GB drive in bay 1.
A second 500GB drive (Hitachi Travelstar) and needed caddy will arrive this week. I'm pretty sure I'll be fine with the physical install.
I want to put the Hitachi in bay 2, clone it, and have that be my new primary drive.
I'm wondering...
Will the free 30 day trial of True Image allow me to do this? If I like it enough, I'll keep it.
When I select how to clone (automatic or manual) can I choose automatic? I guess my concern is that I'm cloning from a 320GB drive to a larger 500GB drive. If I choose automatic how will that additional space laid out? Or do I have to tell it what to do.
Thanks for any help. Like I said, I'm new!
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And yes, the trial will allow you to clone.
If I were you, I would do a disk and partition backup to a USB disk, swap the system disks, and then restore the image on the new disk. This process doesn't create any risk for the original disk.
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Thanks so much for the quick response, Pat! I do have a back up system image (from Windows 7) saved n an external drive. So if something went wrong with my original drive. That would cover me, correct?
I'm still kind of confused about partitioning. I wouldn't want all partition sizes to increase (those with my OS...etc. can stay the same). I want to increase the size only of the partition where other data is stored.
Sounds like manually partitioning will be needed. I'll take another moment and read through the links you've supplied again. Thanks again!
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If you create a disk and partition backup of all your partitions, you will be able to restore them one by one and adjust the size as you want.
Not sure of what you mean by system image. I am talking about a disk and partition backup created by ATI.
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Bill wrote:I do have a back up system image (from Windows 7) saved n an external drive. So if something went wrong with my original drive. That would cover me, correct?
Pat L is asking an important question. The type backup that you need is one that includes all partitions (including the non-lettered partitions) and we are unable to give you a affirmative unless the prior backup did include all partitions. You can never have too many backups so you may want to do a new one.
The link referenced in post #1 is for an prior version of TrueImage. Click on my signature link below. Index item 3-CC will give you a better idea but look at this next link as it may be a better choice.
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/20586#comment-62734
Look at your old disk via the Windows Disk Management graphical view. The attachment below shows some examples of Dell and others graphical view. The automatic or proportionate clone will resize all but your boot partition so the manual clone is the only clone method whereby you can control your sizes. If your disk has the user Drive C partition as the last partition, then my recommendation would be that you do a manual "as is" clone as indicated by the link above. After the clone, it would be very easy to expand the drive C partition into the unallocated space using Windows 7 Windows Disk Management.
After you check your graphical view, let us know the results and also the answer regarding whether your backup inlcuded all partitions.
http://forum.acronis.com/sites/default/files/forum/2011/05/21542/manufa…
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