I can't answer your query but it might be an idea to start a new thread with "Acronis Disc cloning software" in the title as that might attract responses from people who might not bother reading down to the bottom of old threads with lots of drift and repetition.
I've always used Ghost myself right from the early versions, always paid for but never full retail price, but I wouldn't necessarily recommend it to anyone else.
michael adams
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or uk.comp.homebuilt
The joys of Linux. When I converted this machine to SSD, I simply put in the SSD, made its bgoot takle percdence ovcer existing HD booted a live CD and installed the latest version of Linux. Then I mounted the old hard drive and copied what I needed off it. although a full backup of that existed on my server anyway.
Have XP on the same machine on a different HD. So decided to try HDclone since the Win7 disc won't be in use, as it were. I tried it using Win7 yesterday, but it failed about 5% in. ( I had to reduce the volume on the Win7 disc as surprise surprise the SSD one is slightly smaller.
It's running at the moment and is at 6%.
And that's just failed too. ;-(
Oh dear. Another self-proclaimed expert who doesn't seem to appreciate the difference between simply copying files, and bit by bit cloning of an entire partition or disc.
michael adams
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Oh dear, another self proclaimed expert who doesnt seem to appreciate teh dfferemce between simply copying fkles and being *forced* to clone a whole disk.
Whoosh!
PS cloning a disk is trivial with Lunux.
Man dd.
I got the acronis software with my kingston SSD, it came up with numerous errors during cloning, then at the end proclaimed it had succeeded, which of course it hadn't
Booted from a gparted live USB stick, cloned partitions with no problems.
I've used it twice before. Once on a brand new laptop (thanks to John Rumm) then on my small one used mainly for car tuning (MegaSquirt) which had lots of extra software on the original HD. Both times with success.
Had he so chosen, instead of cloning, the OP could have reinstalled his OS and programs, and copied his iles across too.
The only difference is that you installed Linux instead.
Which is actually what the discussion is supposed to be about.
So why didn't you just do that then then ?
Why mention all the stuff about installing Linux and copying files at all ?
michael adams
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No, in all probaility he couldnt. Have you ever tried to install windows on fresh hardware? Does the average PC even come with installation disks? Have you ever tried to reinstall copy protected software on a new machine?
No, its abot PCs slowing down
Because I didnt want a partition the same isze.
Yes
I don't know as I haven't gone round and asked everybody. And neither have you I suspect.
u ever tried to reinstall copy protected software on a new machine?
Most of the software I use comes with a registrarion number on a card inside the box or jewel case, and has been installed on a number of machines. What I don't do with any of it, is let it phone home.
No it isn't. That problem was solved early on as it all required was a change in the settings of either Firefox or Facebook to stop them autoplaying videos.
Had that change not been made, then its unlikely that fitting an SSD in itself would have made the slightest difference to the OP's original problem.
The OP, along with the rest of the World have now moved on and are adressing an entirely new problem. How to clone an SSD.
While may people welcome the least excuse as an opportunity to install new hardware, very few people are looking for a similar excuse to install Linux. The very fact that people like you appear to be totally oblivious to this fact, depite your years of trying to persuade people otherwise, actually reflects very badly both on Linux itself and the sort of people it attracts.
Ah so while cloning in Linux is trivial, subequently resizing partitions isn't ?
I see.
I think I'd better stop now, before I turn into Tim Nice But Dim.
michael adams
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You havent used to sort of pro software I have had to install then.
It is marginally less so.
But anyway, I wanted the free upgarde to a later version as well.
My point is that all of these things are massively harder/more expensive with windows or a Mac.
I'm coming to the conclusion there may be a fault on the Win7 HD preventing it being cloned. Am running windows chkdsk at the moment which looks like it might complete by bedtime. ;-)
I've installed the SSD properly. Original intention was to just replace the HD once it was cloned. But if that isn't possible, I'll load Win7 fresh to the SSD. And have it on multiple boot so I can still use anything on the old HD.
Just as well this isn't a laptop. ;-)
Generally I find Acronis works on most systems and most circumstances.
However in cases like this, I would get a pair[1] of USB to SATA adaptors (pennies from ebay), and use your laptop to do the clone since you know that it will run Acronis correctly.
[1] One of the normal 2.5" form factor adaptors that integrates both power and data connectors into one block, and then the type which has just a normal SATA lead and expects you to get power elsewhere. Pop the side off the desktop machine, disconnect the SATA to the drive from the Mobo and connect to the adaptor - leave the drive powered from the PC. Now power on the PC (it won't boot, but you don't care - its just a posh PSU for the drive for the purposes of this exercise. Plug the other USB adaptor into the new SSD, connect both to laptop and run Acronis.
Yup that's worth doing. Acronis may refuse to copy if there are corrupt structures on the source disk.
Oddly, that's often easier. If I need to do a clone on site for a customer I often take my laptop and a external startech dock that has its own PSU, and takes both 3.5 and 2.5" drives and connects them via USB to the laptop, Saves needing to install clone software on the source drive which is sometimes advantageous (especially with data recover on a potentially failing disk).
(Got caught out a few weeks back, when I found the laptop I was cloning has a M2 main drive rather than 2.5" SATA)!
Yes - was very impressed when I used it some time ago.
I have a USB caddy that takes a laptop drive.
Slight snag is the Win7 HD is actually IDE. I'd forgotten that. The other larger one which is partitioned and I keep AV etc files on (other partition XP) is SATA.
Just because you can't doesn't mean someone else can't.
Multiple times and linux and others.
It doesn't need to you can download windows installation disks from the M$ site or use the built in software to make disks or a USB stick.
Well that's because DD isn't very good at cloning.
When windows users "clone" drives they change the partition size to suit the new drive.
Do you need to ask a linux advocate why? Especially one who uses an old version of windows and has no idea of anything that has happened in the last ten years?
You mean pro software that is cr@p.
Do you want to name any of them and explain why you had a problem?
In what way? I have had three upgrades to windows in the last year or so and they were all free. MAC upgrades are free to.
They are so easy that you can even let them do the upgrade while you go out or you can watch them for ten minutes.
Why don't you get windows and a MAC before you repeat what you choose to read in those very dubious sources you use.
I created the acronis boot USB stick and used that to clone the last disk I did.
Another update. Windows chkdsk didn't say it has found any problems. But decided to give Acronis a final try. And this time it worked.
Surprisingly, the SSD isn't vastly faster than the old one. But only some experience in use will tell.
The difference on my laptop - albeit with a bare windows installation - was much more marked. But even that has slowed down quite a bit now.
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