I have a Samsung F1 Spinpoint 1TB drive that will be going into my system this weekend.
Firstly I need to clone my exisiting 74GB Raptor to the Samsung drive. I assume I can use Acronis True Image 11 Home to do this:
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Now, I would like to have 2, maybe 3, partitions on the 1TB drive (eg. 2 x 500GB partitions). Would I need to create partitions on the 1TB drive before I clone the system drive? Or would the True Image software be able to clone the 74GB Raptor into a 500GB partition on the Samsung drive? Or is this something that I would need to do afterwards. My OS is Vista 64-bit.
Ideally I would just like to clone my Raptor and have the software ask me how big I wanted the partition to be. I'm also assuming that Vista can extend and create new partitions on a drive.