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backing up an SSD to a HDD

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I am buying a new computer with a primary 250Gb SSD drive with Windows 7 Professional operating system installed on it, can i use True Image 2013 to clone the SSD drive to a secondary 1TB Seagate hard drive installed on the machine so that in the event of a problem i can recover the SSD drive to a previous state from a cloned image on the 1Tb Seagate hard drive

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In Acronis True Image parlance, cloning is a process that create a disk identical to the original one, whereas imaging (disk and partition backup) creates an archive TIB file with all the information that you need to restore on a (new/same) disk.
clone = image + restore
So you really want to backup your SSD to your big disk, keep a history of images. Include all partitions of the SSD in the backup.
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/28705

So also want to create the Acronis recovery CD and make sure you can boot your computer on it, and recover a couple of files from the backup described above.

If I understand it correctly with Acronis you can Image the SSD to the second hard drive and as long as you make a recovery cd to boot from you can restore the SSD in the event of a problem, if the machine will boot can you restore an image from a backup from windows or do you always need to use the boot disk first, I am using Norton GHOST with my present machine and this allows you to restore an image by booting into a form of DOS from Windows XP and then allowing you to access the images you have taken and restore one. If you are unable to boot the pc you can then use a previously created boot disk.

The product is designed to be able to restore from Windows, and most of the time it works: it would reboot in a pre-Windows environment that is the same as the one used by the recovery CD. But (a) this implies modifying the boot records of the system disk (b) if your disk is dead, there is nothing left to boot on.

Anyway, it is recommended, even by Acronis, to recover system images from the recovery CD.

Pat L wrote:

The product is designed to be able to restore from Windows, and most of the time it works: it would reboot in a pre-Windows environment that is the same as the one used by the recovery CD. But (a) this implies modifying the boot records of the system disk (b) if your disk is dead, there is nothing left to boot on.

Anyway, it is recommended, even by Acronis, to recover system images from the recovery CD.

You say it is recommended to recover system images from the recovery CD ( what recovery cd ? and what are the system images )
IF Acronis is booted from the Boot disk is it then able to overwrite the SSD and restore the machine to working order from an image taken while it was working okay sorry if i appear a bit dim but i have limited techinical knowledge and am just looking for a simple foolproof way to backup and restore the main C: drive in the event of say a bad software install or corrupted windows file that stops the machine from booting into windows.