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Using Acronis True Image 8 to clone to a specific partition
Hi:
I've been told there are many persons contributing to this newsgroup that use the Acronis True Image 8 program, so I would appreciate any help I can get from those users. Using the Acronis disk imaging program, I've been unable to clone a HD to a specific partition on another HD. The destination drive has two partitions and I haven't able to find a way for Acronis True Image 8 to clone my source disk to just one of the partitions on the destination drive. It would seem that I could only clone to the entire disk, thus wiping out the two partitions on the destination disk in this case. I can't seem to find an option that would allow me to clone my source disk to a specific partition on the destination disk. I tried doing this using the bootable CD and through the Windows interface, but couldn't find a way to do it. Using the Norton Ghost program, I've been able to clone my hard disk to a specific partition on a multi-partitioned destination disk with no difficulty. So I'm assuming (and hoping!) this capability also exists in the Acronis program but I just haven't been able to access it. I submitted this query to the Acronis forum and the responses I received indicated the capability does not exist in the Acronis program; however, a friend who also uses the Acronis program informed me that he was certain this capability exists, but he just couldn't remember the steps involved to do it. I've been quite impressed with the speed (data transfer) of the Acronis program (in comparison to Ghost) and I would like to continue using it. If the capability I'm looking for does indeed exist, I would be particularly interested in how I could perform the clone to a specific partition on a second HD using the Acronis bootable CD. Thanks for any help. Anna |
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Using Acronis True Image 8 to clone to a specific partition
Anna,
I use Bing and don't use Acronis but why not just create an image and then restore to the desired partition? This should work using Acronis. Fred Anna wrote: Hi: I've been told there are many persons contributing to this newsgroup that use the Acronis True Image 8 program, so I would appreciate any help I can get from those users. Using the Acronis disk imaging program, I've been unable to clone a HD to a specific partition on another HD. The destination drive has two partitions and I haven't able to find a way for Acronis True Image 8 to clone my source disk to just one of the partitions on the destination drive. It would seem that I could only clone to the entire disk, thus wiping out the two partitions on the destination disk in this case. I can't seem to find an option that would allow me to clone my source disk to a specific partition on the destination disk. I tried doing this using the bootable CD and through the Windows interface, but couldn't find a way to do it. Using the Norton Ghost program, I've been able to clone my hard disk to a specific partition on a multi-partitioned destination disk with no difficulty. So I'm assuming (and hoping!) this capability also exists in the Acronis program but I just haven't been able to access it. I submitted this query to the Acronis forum and the responses I received indicated the capability does not exist in the Acronis program; however, a friend who also uses the Acronis program informed me that he was certain this capability exists, but he just couldn't remember the steps involved to do it. I've been quite impressed with the speed (data transfer) of the Acronis program (in comparison to Ghost) and I would like to continue using it. If the capability I'm looking for does indeed exist, I would be particularly interested in how I could perform the clone to a specific partition on a second HD using the Acronis bootable CD. Thanks for any help. Anna |
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Using Acronis True Image 8 to clone to a specific partition
Anna wrote: I can't seem to find an option that would allow me to clone my source disk to a specific partition on the destination disk. That's because there ISN'T one. DUH! I submitted this query to the Acronis forum and the responses I received indicated the capability does not exist in the Acronis program; however, a friend who also uses the Acronis program informed me that he was certain this capability exists, but he just couldn't remember the steps involved to do it. He might be certain, but he's certainly WRONG. |
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Using Acronis True Image 8 to clone to a specific partition
You can't do a Disk to Partition copy. However you could Create an Image of
the disk to CD or DVD and then Restore the image to the specific partition providing it had enough room to load the image file to. -- Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User] www.webtree.ca/windowsxp "Curmudgeon" wrote in message oups.com... Anna wrote: I can't seem to find an option that would allow me to clone my source disk to a specific partition on the destination disk. That's because there ISN'T one. DUH! I submitted this query to the Acronis forum and the responses I received indicated the capability does not exist in the Acronis program; however, a friend who also uses the Acronis program informed me that he was certain this capability exists, but he just couldn't remember the steps involved to do it. He might be certain, but he's certainly WRONG. |
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