Failure to Clone with Acronis
Running Windows 7 Home Premium I am unable to Clone my "C" drive which is 500gb to a USB connected 200gb drive.
After 4 attempts it actually went through the whole process of Cloning and showed "Successful" but the Cloned drive was no longer Recognised, on re-selecting the drive so that it showed up in "My Computer" once more it was still "Empty".
Any ideas most welcome please.
Rab


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Pat,
Many thanks for all the info.
I was hoping to actually "Clone" so that I could just Swap drives if my "C" drive Died, this would, if I am correct, save me from having to "Re-load" all my Programs?
I generally "Backup" my "C" drive at intervals to another USB Drive used only for this purpose.
I will go through the instructions on my 200gb USB Drive you have posted for me, and give it another try, this will take me a little time though.
Regards,
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David,
Should you have a really bad virus; or a hard drive failure; or want to move to a larger drive, the type of backup is a complete backup of the disk which includes all partitions including the ones which are recovery or without drive letters. Having such a complete backup provides everything you need to perform such a task. If you are using Windows 7 or Vista, these have special partitions and these should be included in the backup if you wish to to duplicate the disk for any reason.
Single partition backup from inside Windows
Backup of entire disk to include everything.
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Hello Grover,
Thanks for that, I feel much better for that. Have had 2 decent replies on this matter.
Regards
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Be aware of the risk when cloning.
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/17852#comment-53851
If cloning, I prefer the manual mode so I can control size of partitions to prevent TI from resizing those which should not be expanded.
As Pat mentioned above, click on my signature below and review items in #3--particularly 3-BB, 3-CC & 3-DD.
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Am doing Disc and Partition Backup, taking 2 hours. 10 mins left to completion.
This should complete OK I hope.
Completed.....All looks OK.
Thanks for all assistance.
Cheers
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Your next step for you is to verify that you can recover a file or two to a new location or new folder.
Boot from the TI REscue CD and choose the Restore "Files & Folders (not partitions) and choose your new backup and restore a few files to a new location.
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