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HD cloning Windows 7

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I plan to clone my 320gb HD to a 1tb HD. Both HD's are presently inside my computer. Should I pull the 1tb drive and place it in a docking station before cloning or can I leave it inside the desktop? One more question, I have many documents and a large numbers of photo folders. Is it prudent to move them all to another drive and leave only programs on the HD before cloning? Thank you for any help. James

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James,

You can keep both drives in your system to perform the actual clone, however, do not reboot the PC without removing or disconnecting the source drive first. If you leave it connected the BIOS will be unsure what disk to boot from and Windows itself will become totally confused. I am assuming that the source drive contains the OS files.

For cloning leave the contents of your drive as is.

Whilst you can begin the clone from Windows, it is more prudent to use the recovery Cd and boot from th eLinux environment and clone so that Windows has no chance of locking drives or preventing access.

To aid yourself it is a good idea to assign labels to both of your drives from within Windows so you can be sure which drive is which, even though the size difference should tell you.

Thank you for the info. How do I use the recovery cd ( make my own?) and what is booting from the Linux environment. (I thought Linux was its own OS. ) James

Use the True Image media builder utility to either burn the recovery environment to a CD or USB drive (if to USB drive, it must be empty and be plugged in before opening True Image). The OS used in the recovery environment is Linux.

Hello, the cloning worked perfectly. I cloned my Seagate 320 gb to my Seagate 1 tb hard drive. I also had an empty Western Digital 500 gb hard drive inside the desktop as well. After the cloning I was going to use it as a backup, but noticed the drive was almost full.
There was a folder called My Backups and inside were these files: My Partitions (3) Acronis True Image Backup Archive 141,846,368 KB
My Partitions (4) Acronis True Image Backup Archive 145,128,375 KB

Can these files be deleted? I'm not even sure how they got there. Thank you for your help. James

James,

Good to hear you managed to clone your drive successfully. As far as those two files are concerned they look as though they are full partition images, perhpas you experimented with TIH? I would check to see if you can either explore or mount them just to check what is in them, before deleting them.

Do they appear in the list of backups in the TIH list? If they do, delete them from within TIH, if they don't and you know you don't need them, delete them as you would any other file.