I am the CEO of a small company, and IT work falls on me by default, not because I am averse in it.
Thank you for taking the time to educate me. Please see KB document: which gives much more information on cloning including a video tutorial of the process. Windows does not support booting into Windows for USB disk drives. The USB drive does not boot and Windows fix procedures did not help. If anything happened, my system crash, Can i just go to bios and choose to boot up from this cloned HDD? To clone, you must put the original in the source and the new drive in the destination. This is complete offline installer and standalone setup for Acronis true image 2014. ※ Download: ?dl&keyword=Acronis+true+image+2014+portable&source=Īcronis True Image is an easy data backup and recovery tool for your computer. Suggestions? At this point I'm rather thoroughly confused.The page you requested has been moved or doesn't exist anymore. My memory of doing this on the Dell box was that it was relatively straight forward and surprisingly quick. I suspect I'm missing something that ought to be obvious.
I tried the first time using Automatic mode, and when that didn't work, tried Manual for finer control. There's more than enough space on the SSD to hold what's being cloned. The source drive is 500GB, and the target drive is 240GB, but the amount of actual data to be cloned is about 40GB. I see a mouse pointer overlaid on a spinning circle that flickers, and the HD LED indicates that access is occurring, but I have no idea what is taking place.
I can select SATA1 which is the SSD from the Boot Order menu in the BIOS, and it comes up and displays the opening Windows 10 logo, but doesn't successfully boot. Trying to boot from the SSD gets nowhere. That's a WTF? moment - why is the first System partition getting assigned a drive letter? But the cloning procedure produces an SSD with the beginning 350MB System partition assigned a drive letter, and the second partition where Win10 actually resides gets another drive letter, so booted from C:, Windows thinks the SSD is two volumes, E: and F. Looking at the disk layout in Disk Manager, I see the same partition layout on drive C: reproduced on the SSD, which Windows sees as E. Acronis clones the Windows installation to the SSD, but I can't boot from it. I could then theoretically use Acronis to clone Win10 to SSD. Windows wouldn't do it, but a freeware tool called Mini Tool Partition Manager was able to remove the partitions and create one large unused volume.
It took a while to discover how to wipe the Crucial and remove the existing partitions, so that I could attempt to clone the Windows installation to it and make it the boot drive.
But I still had the Win10 Pro upgrade media on a thumb drive, so I was able to upgrade to Win10. Like the Dell, the HP was a Win7 Pro machine.
The old Dell drive later got replaced by a 500GB Seagate drive. I wanted to reuse parts from the Dell, so the Crucial SSD and the original Dell HD got installed as secondary drives. It came with a Toshiba 500GB SATA drive as boot drive. It was faster, with a 3.1 ghz Intel i5-2400 CPU instead of the 2.6 ghz Xeon in the Dell, and the i5 was a supported CPU in Win10, so Windows saw and used all four cores. The replacement was an HP Compaq Small Form Factor box. The Dell subsequently had a power supply failure, and needed to be replaced. The end result was a multi-boot system via Grub2, with a choice of Ubuntu, the Win10 installation on SSD, or the original Win7 installation on HD. Subsequently, I used Windows Disk Management to carve out a RAW slice on the SSD, and installed Ubuntu Linux from a bootable thumb drive. I then upgraded the Win7 installation on the SSD to Win10 via MS's free upgrade offer. The Crucial came with a license for a version of Acronis True Image 2014, and I downloaded it and used it to clone the Win7 Pro installation on the 250GB SATA drive the Dell came with to the SSD, which I could then boot from. It was originally purchased for and installed in a Dell Small Form Factor machine.