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I have used Acronis on my XP machines for years
to clone disks - to migrate to larger disks. I'm lucky to have Dell laptops with modular bays that can handle a hard drive bay module vs external USB drive. Well - our latest Win7 64-bit Dell Latitude E6400 laptop doesn't have any modular bays - but several nice USB ports. I've seen several comments about the recent Acronis versions being buggy. SO - suggestions for Backup/Clone software for Win7 to create the bootable clone using a USB external SATA drive as the target ? -- / _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ No Good Deed - Goes Unpunished |
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On 12/4/2013 1:17 PM, ps56k wrote:
I have used Acronis on my XP machines for years to clone disks - to migrate to larger disks. I'm lucky to have Dell laptops with modular bays that can handle a hard drive bay module vs external USB drive. Well - our latest Win7 64-bit Dell Latitude E6400 laptop doesn't have any modular bays - but several nice USB ports. I've seen several comments about the recent Acronis versions being buggy. SO - suggestions for Backup/Clone software for Win7 to create the bootable clone using a USB external SATA drive as the target ? look into ESATA. I've used older versions of Acronis. There are some gotchas. Win7 puts that small hidden partition at the front. That messed up the drive numbering, so my version of acronis wouldn't restore properly. I used Gparted to partition the drive without the hidden partition and reinstalled the OS. After that, backup/restore worked for the same drive interface. But I never was able to backup an IDE drive and restore it to SATA. Had to reinstall everything on SATA. Then Acronis worked for SATA. I have had instances where the restore seemed to work, but wouldn't boot. Booting the recovery drive and letting it automagically fix the boot problem usually worked. There may be activation issues. Most of my machines are Dell, so I wouldn't see them. I never tried to boot from USB because of the speed issue. No advice on whether restoring to USB would be bootable. Might be interesting to google sysprep. I managed to get a drive moved to a different machine with it, but you'll need a license that permits that. |
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On Wed, 4 Dec 2013 15:17:56 -0600, "ps56k"
wrote: I have used Acronis on my XP machines for years to clone disks - to migrate to larger disks. I'm lucky to have Dell laptops with modular bays that can handle a hard drive bay module vs external USB drive. Well - our latest Win7 64-bit Dell Latitude E6400 laptop doesn't have any modular bays - but several nice USB ports. I've seen several comments about the recent Acronis versions being buggy. SO - suggestions for Backup/Clone software for Win7 to create the bootable clone using a USB external SATA drive as the target ? Both EasyUS and HDClone work well. |
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mike wrote, On 12/4/2013 5:51 PM:
On 12/4/2013 1:17 PM, ps56k wrote: I have used Acronis on my XP machines for years to clone disks - to migrate to larger disks. I'm lucky to have Dell laptops with modular bays that can handle a hard drive bay module vs external USB drive. Well - our latest Win7 64-bit Dell Latitude E6400 laptop doesn't have any modular bays - but several nice USB ports. I've seen several comments about the recent Acronis versions being buggy. SO - suggestions for Backup/Clone software for Win7 to create the bootable clone using a USB external SATA drive as the target ? look into ESATA. I've used older versions of Acronis. There are some gotchas. Win7 puts that small hidden partition at the front. That messed up the drive numbering, so my version of acronis wouldn't restore properly. I used Gparted to partition the drive without the hidden partition and reinstalled the OS. After that, backup/restore worked for the same drive interface. But I never was able to backup an IDE drive and restore it to SATA. Had to reinstall everything on SATA. Then Acronis worked for SATA. I have had instances where the restore seemed to work, but wouldn't boot. Booting the recovery drive and letting it automagically fix the boot problem usually worked. There may be activation issues. Most of my machines are Dell, so I wouldn't see them. I never tried to boot from USB because of the speed issue. No advice on whether restoring to USB would be bootable. Might be interesting to google sysprep. I managed to get a drive moved to a different machine with it, but you'll need a license that permits that. I've restored using Acronis (version 10, 11, 13) Win7 Pro with and without a System Reserved (no drive letter) partition as the first partition to IDE and SATA drives. Image creation and restoration using the bootable media or the desktop Acronis version have been successful with one sole failure. That failure, my fault, was when I inadvertently created the the image for both drives (both Win7 Pro) on a dual boot (2 drive system) from the second booting operating system drive and later initiated the restoration from the first bootable operating system drive which mixed up the correct drive letters (since the active booted o/s was always C Running Windows repair would have taken care of it but fortunately it was only necessary to rebuild the boot manager using EasyBCD edit assigning the correct drive letter C and D to the first and second o/s. -- ...winston msft mvp consumer apps |
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ps56k wrote:
I have used Acronis on my XP machines for years to clone disks - to migrate to larger disks. I'm lucky to have Dell laptops with modular bays that can handle a hard drive bay module vs external USB drive. Well - our latest Win7 64-bit Dell Latitude E6400 laptop doesn't have any modular bays - but several nice USB ports. I've seen several comments about the recent Acronis versions being buggy. SO - suggestions for Backup/Clone software for Win7 to create the bootable clone using a USB external SATA drive as the target ? I use IFL (Image For Linux) from TerabyteUnlimited. They, also, have a IFW (Image For Windows) package. Visit there site for more information. -- Sir_George |
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mike wrote, On 12/4/2013 5:51 PM: [] There may be activation issues. Most of my machines are Dell, so I wouldn't see them. [] Why - do Dell use volume licencing or similar, and you have a Dell restore disc? -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf the plural of 'anecdote' is not 'evidence'. Professor Edzart Ernst, prudential magazine, AUTUMN 2006, p. 13. |
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J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
[] mike wrote, On 12/4/2013 5:51 PM: [] There may be activation issues. Most of my machines are Dell, so I wouldn't see them. [] Why - do Dell use volume licencing or similar, and you have a Dell restore disc? On the older OSes, an OEM installation uses SLIC activation. That means, activation is handled transparently. Windows 8 changes that. http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Win...68 9018832034 "To crack down on piracy, manufacturers will be required to write a unique Windows product key -- which is associated with the hardware hash -- into the system's BIOS instead of using the same product key for every shipped desktop or laptop." On the older OSes, a table in the BIOS called SLIC, was the authorization for OEM activation. You might even find that a number of "Dell" installation CDs or DVDs, could work because the SLIC was effectively saying "this is a Dell". In other words, your Dell computer with Dell motherboard, might be able to run a Dell WinXP CD or a Dell Win7 DVD (plus or minus drivers). The Windows 8 scheme, by comparison, sounds more specific. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS#SLIC Paul |
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On Wednesday, December 4, 2013 3:17:56 PM UTC-6, ps56k wrote:
I have used Acronis on my XP machines for years to clone disks - to migrate to larger disks. I'm lucky to have Dell laptops with modular bays that can handle a hard drive bay module vs external USB drive. Well - our latest Win7 64-bit Dell Latitude E6400 laptop doesn't have any modular bays - but several nice USB ports. I've seen several comments about the recent Acronis versions being buggy. SO - suggestions for Backup/Clone software for Win7 to create the bootable clone using a USB external SATA drive as the target ? -- / _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ No Good Deed - Goes Unpunished See how this works...it's free, for awhile! http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx |
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