Acronis Clone

On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:25:35 -0800, Gene E. Bloch
wrote:

On 12/10/09, Bob Hatch posted:
Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On 12/10/09, Bob Hatch posted:
SC Tom wrote:

"Bob Hatch" wrote in message
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I've been getting ready to do a clone of my C: drive using Acronis. I
just looked at the steps and the help file documentation talks about
"Moving" the files and allows for three methods.

I don't want files moved, I just want a clone of the disk in the drawer
just in case my C: drive crashes. Does Acronis Clone "Move" or "Copy"
the files?


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The way I do it is boot from the Acronis boot disk, then do a backup to
my external drive. That creates an image of the drive I pick. To restore
it, boot from the same CD and do a restore. I have restored crashed Vista
and XP disks in this manner with no trouble whatsoever.

I want to "Clone" not image or backup.

"CLONE"!

Then obtain a cloning program. "CLONING".

Casper is one, and EASEUS Disk copy is another.

Acronis is not one.

Shees.

Actually, it is, as you later mentioned below.


One of the options on the Acronis True Image 2010 Tools and Utilities menu
page is "Clone". Acronis made the menu, not me. My confusion is in the set up
of the clone process it makes reference to "moving" the files. Maybe the
answer is not here. :-)

OK, my bad...

I no longer have Acronis installed, so I couldn't look at the menus -
and I trusted my memory (shudder).

I only used it to make images.

I suspect that they meant copy, not move, but it might worry me too :-)

Actually, the user manual mentioned earlier in this thread mentions a
couple of times that no data is changed on the source drive, that the
clone operation only READS from the source disk and WRITES to the
destination disk. (Emphasis added) I suspect the OP was just being a
little overly cautious. Section 20 of the manual is fairly clear about
cloning, IMHO.

Still: the two programs I mentioned will clone a single partition or a
whole drive. I think Acronis only does the whole drive, which is why I
misremembered that it does nothing: it does nothing that I wanted at
the time...

I use Acronis Disk Director to clone individual partitions, but you're
right, there are many tools that do about the same thing.