Hard Drive Cloning with Acronis True Image

[harritaco]

i spent all day getting this crap to work but i finally got it to work. i had tried 3 different versions of this and they all failed except the 09 version which is what i used. after cloning my C: drive i went into the setup to change it so that it boots to my new drive instead of the old. this program works it just took me forever to find the one that works for me.

[antoniomiranda1213]

ur the fucking mann



[Lostkey23]

how to clone?

[hateliberals1]

kinda

[Tzantzaru]

Hey. I Have a 640 GB HDD and i just bought a 60 GB SSD. On that 640 GB HDD i have a 50 GB partition for windows. I want to clone that specific partition to my SSD, but in acronis i can't choose only a partition to clone , just the entire disk... Please let me know if you have a solution for me. Thanks !

[FreeCompConsultant]

@Tzantzaru Do you have just the free (limited) version of Acronis?

[ralfytm]

@Tzantzaru i had the same problem, mirror the entire drive and then use a partition manager to make the partitions on the drive how you want.

[hoipahoi]

how did you make the bootable cd for the acronis true image? can you just burn the file directly into the cd/dvd?

[FreeCompConsultant]

@hoipahoi I have the program installed on the PC and create a boot CD from that.

[JordyBT]

PLEASE HELP!! I cloned my laptop hard drive to my desktop hard drive and everything is OK but the keyboard and mouse don't work....What should i do?

P.S the keyboard and mouse are functioning properly, and work in other machines

[FreeCompConsultant]

@JordyBT Cloning an operating system like Windows typically only works on identical or VERY similar hardware.

[JordyBT]

@FreeCompConsultant OK, i really need my desktop to be working, now i can't even reinstall windows because i get an error saying " disk read error pres CRTL + ALT + DEL " that's why i tried to clone my laptop hard drive to the desktop.

[argas]

@JordyBT if this is windows xp you can always boot the windows xp disc and do a repair most of the time it takes care of all the problems

[johnmcook1]

@JordyBT YOU NEED TO DOWN LOAD THE DRIVERS FOR UR MACHINE U INSTALLED THE CLONE ON FOR THEM TO WORK AS THEY WERE NOT INSTALLED WITH THE CLONED DRIVE IM AN HP REPAIR TECH:)

[nickobellic123]

Hi there, I want to clone my Windows OS Drive that is currently on a 500GB 7200RPM Seagate SATA Drive to a Corsair F80 SSD. Will this work considering that the current Windows drive is 500GB (its only got like 30GB on it though) and I'm cloning to an 80GB HDD? Are there any particular options i need to select?

Thanks heaps @FreeCompConsultant

[PCRogerTV]

@nickobellic123 Should work, possibly in automatic mode. Depends on what version you have for exact keystrokes, but just make sure you leave selected the option to "KEEP DATA" on OLD drive. That way your old drive should be untouched.

Are you running Windows 7?

[nickobellic123]

@PCRogerTV Thanks for that. I'll be buying the 2011 Home Version, and yes, I'm running Windows 7 X64

[simonsex]

can i use acronis in lets say i have 500gb of hard disk and want to transfer my files to my new 1tb hard disk? But my 500gb is partitioned to 3 drives. Should I partition first my new 1tb hard disk into 3 drives also? thanks

[simonsex]

can i use acronis in lets say i have 500gb of hard disk and want to transfer my files to my new 1tb hard disk?

[FreeCompConsultant]

@simonsex For just transferring files you don't need Acronis, although it might be faster. Acronis real job is to take a Windows boot drive and transter everything in working order to a larger drive.

For further help come to my support forum at FreeComputerConsultant (dot) com/forum

[simonsex]

@FreeCompConsultant

Correcte4d my question. I also want to add that my HD is with an OS installed. I dont htink copying it will make my new HD bootable, so I have to use acronis

[TheHacker1101]

Sata HDD are faster.....get rid of ATA HDD

[arrade1]

need help don't how to use have c drive almost compely full so how make more room on it????

[FreeCompConsultant]

@arrade1 Assuming you have "stuff" on there you don't need, backup your drive, then watch my video on CCleaner.

Come to my support forum if you need help.

FreeComputerConsultant (dot) com/forum

[arrade1]

@FreeCompConsultant nvm fix myself need nomore help anymore

[jomac21]

can i clone 2 HDD in RAID 0 to a @ 2 HDD in RAID 0 too? please help... :)

[FreeCompConsultant]

@jomac21 If it's hardware raid it might work, I've never tried it.

[cwhirschfield]

One thing to watch out for is the amount of time this takes. I cloned an ATA drive

to a SATA drive - about 125 GB - and it took about 12 hours. There must be a faster

way. years ago I used so Maxtor software that was much faster.

[FreeCompConsultant]

@cwhirschfield On a typical system this is very fast. I suspect a driver issue of some kind. If you have this occur more than once, tech support can help you resolve.

[cman011]

do i need a hard drive enclosure to clone my old hard drive to the new one? or can i just have both inside and just do the same procedure?

[FreeCompConsultant]

@cman011 You can connect it internally, externally with enclosure or use something like a Vantec USB Hard drive adapter (see my video on laptop maintenance/recovery with Vantec Adapter)

[camboy1132]

you can buy IDE cable to USB. new hard drive can be plugged into the USB. run Acronis True Image copy & pick the destination to & pick USB DRIVE. when through switch computer. unplug USB and then plug it on the IDE .

[FreeCompConsultant]

@camboy1132 I have some newer videos detailing the use of a Vantec USB hard drive adapter. thanks.

[TALKCalgary]

Stay away from Acronis True Image 2010 it's full of bugs. We used it to clone the drive on an laptop. After doing so we got a message saying that the copy was good, however we were unable to boot from the new drive. After 4 weeks we got an email from Acronis saying that "we don't recommend using the home and office product for critical backups"

[onesexychamp]

@TALKCalgary lol i cant believe that. what are you using. any backup is critical any picture is critical can you believe the nerve they have.

[ewupawly]

4:22 lol nice karate chop

[weallknowitstrue]

HELP.

I am running RAID10 on a Promise EX8300 RAID Card

I want to swap between two different images:

= Windows XP 32bit;

= Windows 7 64bit;

And change between them regularly.

Any ideas which cloning software will let me do that?

FYI: I also know about and run virtuals - but I need to change my native OS.

I would be grateful to anyone who ACTUALLY knows

Cheers

[lark3po]

Gotta love 60hz refresh...

[Grillzor]

Thanks for the tut!

[coldplayismagic]

hi there, if you could answer this question that would be great:

I have a 320GB WD internal hard drive and i want to clone it to a newly bought 1TB WD internal hard drive.

So i downloaded the free acronis software from Western Digital's website and i followed the process it asked me to do to clone the drive. it said it required a reboot.

so i did, and when it gets to around 54% copied my computer just shuts down...what is going on here?

thanks

[Utubemaker]

That's what happened to me too!!

Anyone who knows why?

[Budie69]

bro, is it possible to clone with different specification?. if it is, how? pleas help me. tnx!

[nicozi]

does this copy programs also

[KangarooBoo08]

yes. It makes an exact duplicate of the drives.

[H0D0NKAIN]

it copies everything on the drive... bit for bit... every little thing.

[kenlili]

what i know is that the sector-by-sector mode will create an image of the entire disk(sectors that contains data or not will be imaged) and the none sector-by-sector mode will only create an image of the sectors that contains data. in sextor-by-sector mode, it replace the entire disk image right? so what about the none sector-by-sector mode since it creates an image of the sectors that contains data only.

[kenlili]

what i was trying to ask is, i do have my entire pc backup already, i finally mess up my pc with viruses, now i want to restore the entire pc. so, would ghost and true image do a format to clean the disk(s) at first and then restore the entire pc?

[FreeCompConsultant]

When you restore, whatever is there is replaced with the disk image used. Not a format, per se, but would wipe everything out and restore to what it was like when image was taken.

[kenlili]

I would like to know the differences(advantages and disadvantages) between the sector-by-sector and none sector-by-sector mode, i want specific details but not what was being generally explain in the software user guide i already read.

[kenlili]

what does per se stand for?

[kenlili]

i have been using norton ghost for a few entire pc backup but i still want to ask this. do true image and norton ghost performs a  formation for the hard disk(s)? do they formats the hard disk(s) before backing them up?

[FreeCompConsultant]

No, a format would wipe out the data

[kenlili]

yea, i know it would wipe out the data

[visionit2007]

@FreeCompConsultant Formatting a drive doesn't remove data, it simply creates a new index. You may not be able to access it using a fresh index, but it's still there.

[garrittstork]

Can anyone Tell me For sure! the anser to this question,

i have a 80gb hard drive with windows vista ultimate on it, it is about to die and i dont want to loose everything. i also have a 500gb hard drive installed on my computer with all my games, music, movies and stuff. i want to use acronis true image to transfer my vista os onto my 500Gb harddrive, what i want to know is if i do this will it delete my stuff that is already on my 500 gb hard drive?

[theEMOgoat]

it wont, you should be able to choose where you want to save the 80gb on ur 500gb harddrive

[icyshadow0]

btw... 2009 has the vista look

[kekenalii]

i really dont get acronis...so i basically clone a hard drive to another one, saving me the hassle of having to reinstall my programs in case of crash...

right? well if the the crash was because of , lets say, water got spilled all inside my computer....and i had to rebuild an entirely new pc...well the backed up drive couldnt be installed in my new computer right?

[kekenalii]

i have a pc that i bought on ebay from a recording studio that was going out of business right,,,well it has about 15 grand worth of software in it, well I backed up those programs etc and tried to use them in my other studio PC and none of the software works. the back up hd is a usb external hd, and none of the programs work on my other pc....is the anyway around this?

[FreeCompConsultant]

Not usually.

Windows software has to be installed, typically, to work right. Many entries in the registry, files copied to weird locations, etc in order to work.

Copying only worked (usually) in the DOS world before Windows

[FreeCompConsultant]

In that case, no, but you could still "mount" the image and restore individual files from the image to the new computer.

It's an excellent, fast, compressed backup of your files in addition to being able to clone the disk.

[kekenalii]

mount?

[MadDawg010]

That depends. Did the water get on the drive? If not, then you can use that very drive. If it did, you may want to take it to a professional for data recovery.

[xchlppprsx]

no your right, but what you could do is put it in the computer as another hard drive and once you have the OS installed on your new drive you can then go in and retrieve the data from the other drive

[kekenalii]

are you sure about that? All my 10 thousand dollars worth of music production software would just be recognized by the new pc without having to re-enter license codes etc? if this is possible, could you please, ANYONE, leave a link to a site where i can read about this?

[xchlppprsx]

fairly certain, all the data would still be on that one cloned drive so if you had it as a second drive in your new computer (no RAID configurations) but because of the possibility of something like this you should always back up those codes somewhere or keep the cases or whatever they came in. But yes you should be able to get those things back.

[icyshadow0]

No it cant, or you have to have to put the same partition hard drive in the new one

[Dave51262]

Great video. I have an older XP computer from 2002. If I get a new SATA HD, will I need an adapter if I use the method from this video? Thanks!

[FreeCompConsultant]

More than likely; PC's that old don't usually have SATA connectors.

Do you have a USB hard drive? Image to that, then image from USB drive to new PC.

[FourtySven]

i want to move everything from my old hd to my new one, the new one is unused but do i need to use an acronis cd? or can i just run everthing from the program on desktop?

[relbadboy]

Great video! I've been considering making a complete clone of my main (OS running) hard drive and using Acronis to ghost to a new solid state drive that will run windows and most of my commonly used programs. Now, if I simply format the SSD as a secondary drive, then ghost to it, then get rid of my main drive altogether, should the SSD be recognized just as the old one was, upon the next boot?

[FeralReason]

I have True Image Home 2009. Have a Dell laptop and trying to clone to a 2.5" replacement disk that I have put into a USB enclosure. Will I have to jumper this disk as a slave or does it matter ?

[FreeCompConsultant]

I don't think it will matter, never has for me.

[zyreena]

i've got 20G IDE HD, with my OS installed on it. Is it possible to use acronis to clone my 20G to my 160G HD, wherein my 160 will now become my boot drive?

[jakegwilliam]

yes acronis will do that

[UninflatedDevil462]

i love this program. it saved my laptop.

[DeathMetalforever]

I cloned hard drive 1 to hard drive 2 and the hard drive 2 doesn't boot up by itself. How can I make the second hard drive to be bootable?

Any help will be appreciated

[FreeCompConsultant]

Are the drives jumpered?

I can help over at my support forum on my website (sorry, YouTube will not allow me to post a direct link)

[FreeCompConsultant]

You can backup and restore by partition if you like

[andre3030303030]

Hi, Can this software be used to clone individual partitions as well, or just the entire drive? I am not sure if it allows partition-to-partition cloning. I am looking for something that would run from dos and be able to copy individual partitions. Thanks!

[aircave]

so to transfer data TO an ext hdd (usb), the ext hdd enlosure has to be removed and be connected via IDE cables as either primary or secondary?

[FreeCompConsultant]

Not at all; Acronis will go straight to a USB hard drive if you want.

[aircave]

thanks... very helpful video(s) btw.

[alanfromdarwen]

would i be able to put a image onto a ext hdd, then use that image to put a larger gb hdd into my laptop.. many thanks.

[FreeCompConsultant]

absolutely

[alanfromdarwen]

hi, would i be able to use this to change my laptop hdd, and would i be able to use a ext hdd to put the image on, then transfer image to the new laptop hdd.. many thanks in advance..

[wickedroy]

do you need 2 hard drives or will it work with on to? im going to get this program and a new mobo.

[bigjayzway]

EASIEST program to clone a hard drive.

Even a caveman can do it.

[haon8]

Great tutorial, thank you :). Quick question though...

I ordered a 640GB Seagate to replace my 160GB Seagate, and want to clone. Do I need to hook the new one up WITH the old one, start the program (won't be booting from disk, will start through Windows) and then clone directly to the new one? Can I put the cloned image on to the old one, and then move it to the new one?

[FreeCompConsultant]

Yes you will hook them up at the same time.

You can directly clone one to another or you could create a large partition on the new drive for operation, then a smaller partition for the image.

[haon8]

Great, thanks :).

[Millls21]

you are slow!!!!!!!!!!!

[FreeCompConsultant]

Meaning?

[Antioxidants0]

I have a new 640gb Hard drive and an old 160gb hard drive. The old hard drive is one partition. The new one is partitioned so that I have 515Gb for data and 80 Gb for Apps/OS (its about 596gb tota due to formatting). How do I backup only my OS and restore it to the 80gb Partition?

[FreeCompConsultant]

Might have to get innovative.

Partition the new drive first, move data from old drive to new drive so that you decrease the size of the partition you want to image so that it fits on the 80GB you have allocated for it.

BTW, how do you plan on backing up your 515GB of data?

[Antioxidants0]

Good idea, thanks. As for how I plan on backing up 515Gb of data? Well I'll cross that road when I get there. For now I'll just use my old hard drive to backup 160Gb of data that i deem too important to risk losing. Otherwise I'm not too concerned at the moment as it's just media and easily (albeit a time consuming process) replaceable.

[bushidocock]

I just cloned my data from my old 500gb onto my new 500gb once I removed the old HDD and placed the new HDD into port 1 the new hard drive wouldn't boot, it wouyld just take me to the hdd diagnostics screen.i used my reinstallation dvd and installed vista on the new hard drive. When i go into my computer it shows the cloned hard drive as my primary drive and all the data but none of the data is there??? Please help me with this. Thanks

[FreeCompConsultant]

Did you use Acronis to do the clone? It seems like maybe it wasn't actually successful.

The reinstall DVD will wipe out your hard drive probably without warning you.

If you clone it again and it doesn't work you may try booting with (you can google for it) Ultimate Boot CD to see if data is on drive and possibly fix the boot problem.

[bushidocock]

Sorry I completely forgot about this comment. Yeah I tried it a third time and it worked, first two time when I tried it and came back to my pc it had shut down automatically but this time it asked to press a key to shut down, so I guess that was the problem. Now lets hope this clone fixes the problem I'm having. Thanks alot.

[gatzkeRob]

""Were you intending to boot from the DVD or just make a copy that you can clone another hard drive with?""

Answer: Either option is fine, bootable preferrably.

[gatzkeRob]

Can I copy a bootable image of my partition with XP onto a DVD so I don't have to redo all my settings? My partition is 4.5GB

[FreeCompConsultant]

Were you intending to boot from the DVD or just make a copy that you can clone another hard drive with?

[gatzkeRob]

Either option is fine, bootable preferrably.

[FreeCompConsultant]

You could copy onto it; I don't see how you could actually boot live Windows from the DVD - Windows would want to write to the DVD as if it were a hard disk.

[Corrupt5358]

Yes as long as the dvd is big enough. Normal blank DVD's (dvd-5's) max storage is 4.37GB. If the partition is bigger than that u will need a DVD-9 (dual layer) which holds twice as much.

If you have a partitioned hardrive you could also just store the image on the part you use for files (which is what I do). Backing up to dvd is then optional. And yes you can make a boot cd which will allow u to load back your acronis images if the computer has no operating system.

[gyghost]

Hi, I have a question. I bought a new 500GB hard drive, I've split it up into four partitions, I've used the last partiton to copy over all my important files. Now can i Copy my original XP hard drive to the first partiton of the new 500GB harddrive? Or if I copy it, everything that I've already copied onto the new disk will be lost? I Think I might have done the wrong thing by partitoning and copying my filoes first.

[FreeCompConsultant]

If you clone the entire drive, your files will be overwritten.

If you restore only a partition to the new drive partition, your files would not be overwritten but you stand the chance of a user error accidentally overwriting data, or an inefficient layout of the drive when done.

[asus3571]

i have true image home and want to clone my main 320gig drive to aseagate500gig thats in an external case so when my main drive fails i can just plug in the seagate and keep going but the software says after cloneing is done i have to remove my main if so why im not ready to swap yet

[FreeCompConsultant]

You do not have to remove the primary drive after cloning. That's only if you want to swap now.

[jmontague]

how do i do it if i want to copy the entire hdd(with os) to a new bigger hdd?

[FreeCompConsultant]

Same way; Acronis will allow the new drive to be bigger or smaller.

With Seagate drives, you can even download a stripped down version of Acronis True Image from their website for free.

[erikSC1978]

How would I clone SATA drives? I want to clone my old 7200 RPM drive to my new WD Raptor 10000RPM drive? Is there any good free software for this? If acronis is the best software to use, where might i find it?

[FreeCompConsultant]

Typically a motherboard that supports SATA will also have an IDE connector so that you can clone from one to the other in the same PC.

Sometimes a new hard drive will come with a stripped down version of something like Acronis that will do the clone for you. You can try Western Digital's website and look. Seagate & Maxtor offer one which is a stripped down version of acronis.

I have small ad in the upper left corner of BLOG to get the software.

freecomputerconsultant (dot) com / blog

[PhanDemus]

Great software easy as pie.

[jnnycliff]

Great software, but if anyone have Seagate or Maxtor drive, you could download Maxtblast5 from maxtor, it's free and same software. But it working only if you have maxtore or seagate drive.

[FreeCompConsultant]

Yes and no.

It is Acronis True Image Home, but minus some bells and whistles (as I have reported on my website). But the basics are there and you can upgrade if you need the extra features.

[tedted777]

i don't want slave master ide jumper etc etc, can you show me how to use a bart pe cd to do the whole job without getting your hands dirty. put an image on a network share, pull it off a network share, job done.

[ramsgatejames]

whats wrong with copy paste... lol

[richurbn]

try copying and pasting the entire Windows OS... easy does it... lol

[Josemedeiros]

Now I know where to tell some one to go when the call me to help them with the router for free.

Jose Medeiros

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