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way the Acronis tech said it would. I want to be able to clone the old hard drive so that I do not loose applications that I no longer have disks for. I tried cloning the old laptop drive to a USB ... should be copied to an external USB drive? (I really don't want to waste much time, that's why ...

Forum topic - Updated 2011-09-15 19:13

recovery CD not from under Windows. Try a reverse clone, that is place the new drive into the laptop and the old drive into the external USB caddy. You then need to boot from the recovery CD and clone ... identical models. I am trying to clone the HD on my first system so that I can simply install the cloned ...

Forum topic - Updated 2011-09-17 03:06

I'm trying to Use ATI 2012 to Clone my desktops hard drive to an external WD Mybook (hard drive). Having only had previous experience cloning one internal drive to another (internal drive) using ATI 10 with no problems. I have the following questions. 1. Is it possible to Clone to an external ...

Forum topic - Updated 2012-01-10 17:29

petitioning would have tried to clone my HP hard drive to one of those partitions that my Seagate external ... partitioned my Seagate 1.5 TB external drive and after that petitioning would have tried to clone my HP hard ... that. I don't want to touch the Seagate 1.5 TB external hard drive that I did the clone to yet. I ...

Forum topic - Updated 2011-10-02 18:21

cloning. Otherwise you will not be able to boot from the new cloned drive. As such, hard disk bays cannot ... The new disk, to which you clone your older one, should be inside the laptop during the ... to have the new drive formatted to do the cloning. For information on Acronis Bootable Media see  ...

Article - Public - Updated 2012-01-06 15:10

started(*) (and the external speed wasn't what I had hoped for anyway) I cloned again, swapping drives ... suspected a bad drive; cloned the clone to a new drive; problem still exists. Of course it's ... cloning incorrectly? 2) do you think I can *recover* by cloning to external, then BACK to internal? 3) ...

Forum topic - Updated 2011-10-24 21:23

I have a Samsung laptop with dual booting to Windows 7 and Linux Mint on a small hard drive. I want to clone it over to a larger hard drive and I have been looking over what Acronis has to say about ... foot after cloning. You will need a create an TrueImage Bootable media flash drive to replace the ...

Forum topic - Updated 2012-02-26 18:04

I have a Samsung laptop with dual booting to Windows 7 and Linux Mint on a small hard drive. I want to clone it over to a larger hard drive and I have been looking over what Acronis has to say about how to do it. It seems to me that I could take out the DVD drive and hook up the target hard drive ...

Forum topic - Updated 2012-02-26 18:04

unsupported hard disk drives ..... Home does not support Windows Dynamic disks, EZ-Drives, etc." Problem is that my existing hard drive is Basic and not dynamic and the new hard drive is simply a larger ... Then retry the clone with the new disk inside the computer. Thanks for the prompt response ...

Forum topic - Updated 2011-11-15 13:03

cloning. Otherwise you will not be able to boot from the new cloned drive. As such, hard disk bays cannot ... to connect the old drive via USB?  A laptop drive does not an external HDD style USB connector.  Do you need to buy a 2.5" SATA external laptop drive bay? This is what I am trying to achieve. ...

Forum topic - Updated 2012-01-14 15:29

Hi, I want to delete, erase, remove, the clone from my external backup drive. I accidentally created a clone, but I really wanted to create a disk image. My external (2Tb, HP/WD) hard ... external drive and return it to the state it was in when I bought it. After that I want to create disk ...

Forum topic - Updated 2012-05-22 11:41

Why are you cloning to an external USB drive? You will never be able to boot from that drive. If you ... Couldn't Bill clone to an external USB drive, then in the event of a failure put a new HDD in his computer ... system via safely remove USB hardware and removed power from the USB drive so as to not have the clone ...

Forum topic - Updated 2012-01-02 19:32

external hard drive with the recovery files to the laptop, it goes thru the Boot disc boot up and then as ... recovery files are all there and are visible on an external hard drive. I have the Bootable CD and ... the files because the external drive shuts everything down. What to do? Hi Max, Try ...

Forum topic - Updated 2012-05-23 03:12

the laptop hard drive, put it in an external hard drive enclosure with USB output, and connect it to ... files to another external hard drive in the event I just dump the (fairly new) laptop. SHOULD I be ... the laptop's operating system drive make it "unreadable" as just another external disk ...

Forum topic - Updated 2011-10-26 20:04

laptop to my external hard drive then restore it to my new laptop from my external hard drive and it will ... Migrate Easy better for this job? I am very new to disk cloning and don't know much about it. ... restore that image to the new computer. Backup/restore is more flexible than clone. Is the new system ...

Forum topic - Updated 2011-12-03 06:29

new drive that was to be the clone in the location 2 in the laptop - I am thinking that I might ... clone a USB mounted SATI drive with XP Vista, and source a new SATI drive in another USB external drive ... frames, one having the 'old C drive ' i.e. source of clone and the other the new HDD to be the ...

Forum topic - Updated 2012-03-02 06:11

Acronis to backup my Xp system on an external h/d. Can i use that external h/d to restore pictures,music etc,etc to my new computer even though the operating system and "bit" are different? Any advise ... disk" was built using XP machine. Now trying to do a restore TI says "can't read the back up ...

Forum topic - Updated 2011-09-12 16:18

Hi guys, I've also got an momentus xt 750gb drive and tried to clone from a laptop internal ... Nothing is cloned to the new drive. Next I tried to "recover" a disk backup image of the ... Im having trouble cloning a usb backup drive. I have a wd passport drive i want to clone. I ...

Forum topic - Updated 2011-12-30 21:07

I'm trying to clone from a 250GB hard drive to a 500GB drive. The automatic or manual mode ... 7, you could try using Disk Management to extend the partition after booting to the cloned drive ... partition and the drive looked like it would map properly during cloning. The operation indicated it was ...

Forum topic - Updated 2011-10-31 16:41

be able to clone my drive to a partition on a second drive, only to a complete hard drive. If I was ... roughly 300GB partitions. I am trying to clone my C: drive to one of these partitions, but it seems that ... and thanks for the replies. I thought that by cloning the C: drive to another HDD, if anything ...

Forum topic - Updated 2012-01-18 21:45