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CAT-THE-FIFTH (19-03-2009)
Agree with Agent... Acronis is a good choice.
Besides... once you've used it to clone, just uninstall it from the new hard diskand it's gone
CAT-THE-FIFTH (20-03-2009)
Alternatively if it's a one time only clone then boot from the installation/recovery CD (if you bought the software as an online download don't forget to make the recovery disk/usb drive or you may be screwed when it comes to recovery!) and make the image that way, that way you don't have to install at all. That said, you can't then mount images in Explorer and recover individual files from backup while in Windows, but it rather depends on what you want.Agree with Agent... Acronis is a good choice.
Besides... once you've used it to clone, just uninstall it from the new hard disk
CAT-THE-FIFTH (20-03-2009)
Can you use programs like this to store a good clean C: install, in case something goes wrong? If so, in what form is it stored and does it take up much space?
CAT-THE-FIFTH (20-03-2009)
Yes, Of course. I usually make the first image straight after installing Windows and the chipset drivers. It stores them as a compressed image, You can choose the compression. Although with Vista the Images are much bigger than they used to be with XP.
CAT-THE-FIFTH (20-03-2009)
...and the format for Acronis is .TIB
CAT-THE-FIFTH (20-03-2009)
I forgot to add that!
/\ what they said... you can choose to compress it if space is at a premium, but frankly, with hard drives sooo cheap... I just make a copy of a perfect install, with everything done and dusted...
I love acronis.
CAT-THE-FIFTH (20-03-2009)
Thanks everyone for the help and useful suggestions!!
I actually realised that I had a copy of Paragon Partition Manager 8.5 Special Edition on my computer which can copy disks.
The best thing is that I got it free as part of a promotion from Computeractive!
Copied everything over successfully to the newer disc and now I have 70gb of extra space!!
On a much larger level, Acronis is excellent. Currently using it to backup our Server onto a network drive. Works with RAID and everything!
That is the reason I bought it. I used to use V2i but, It would not work with the last RAID controller I had and by that time Powerquest were gone so no support or updates.
I've not found any hardware which True Image won't work with..........If only they did OS's
Something I did discover yesterday - the recovery media that you can create can include specific drivers for the hardware that you use. I was trying to recover an image which of my boot drive which sat on a RAID10 array in the same machine (this array is backed up to a USB disk attached to another machine) and couldn't find my TIH recovery CD, so I created a TIH usb key on another machine. Booting from this on my machine didn't register the RAID array, so I went into Safe Mode and created the TIH recovery usb key on the machine to be recovered - this time the bootable environment saw the array fine.
I could of course have moved the USB disk across the house to the machine being recovered, but I'm lazy
btw imaging is useful to do before any potential problem application install or upgrade cough IE8 and services packs cough
im surprised everyone here seems to have no issues with ATI (acronis true image)
your lucky lol
Can you use a cloning disk util to clone from a large HDD to a smaller one?
Before you start laughing at me let me expalin.
I have a 120GB disk but only 40 used and I want to clone this to a new 64GB disk
Yes you can.
Thank you
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