Salta al contenuto principale

Cloning help/advice

Thread needs solution

Hi, can I clone my system drive to a drive in a USB enclosure, then swap them over ? are there any issues or things to look out for if it is ok/possible to do it this way ? The drives are exactly the same, just that the original will be in place and the destination in USB enclosure. I just want to avoid multiple case openings and drive removal/replacement if possible.

I read this in the manual

"We recommend that you install the target (new) drive where you plan to use it and the source drive
in another location, for example, in an external USB enclosure. This is especially important for
laptops.
Warning! Your old and new hard drives must work in the same controller mode (for example, IDE or AHCI).
Otherwise, your computer will not start from the new hard drive."

Which seems to recomend the opposite of what I want, and I'm not sure about what the IDE/AHCI bit is?

Thanks for any help
Jeff

0 Users found this helpful

Follow the advice and put your new disk on the connector where your old disk is, and put your old disk on the adpater.
Boot the computer on the Acronis recovery medium to perform the clone.
Disconnect the old disk before rebooting with the new disk!

Thank you, that worked out fine.

HELP !!! I added an SSSD to my Alienware 17 R2 laptop. I performed the Clone operation ?With the latest version of True image, when it shut down the computer and I tried to reboot, I get the message that "no Disk with an operating system exists"! I have tried changing the BIOS bot order, but to no avail.
I have no media, or bootable media, is there a way to resolve this?