Acronis 11 question?

[ingeborgdot]

I have acronis and use it for my backup. I was wondering if anyone had ever used the cloning tool it features? If so, how hard is it to clone a drive?

 

[mc866]

Yes, and it's very easy to do. Just make sure you boot from the rescue cd to do the clone, it doesn't work so well from windows.

 

[BlueWeasel]

Just did the Acronis cloning process for the first time about 10 days ago. Cloned a 320gb HD to a 640gb HD and adjusted the partition size to my liking. This was my primary drive and Acronis had no problems creating the active and extended partitions.

I've used Acronis' imaging features for years but hadn't used their cloning routines at all. Based on my one experience, I was very impressed.

 

[MTDEW]

Originally posted by: BlueWeasel
Just did the Acronis cloning process for the first time about 10 days ago. Cloned a 320gb HD to a 640gb HD and adjusted the partition size to my liking. This was my primary drive and Acronis had no problems creating the active and extended partitions.

I've used Acronis' imaging features for years but hadn't used their cloning routines at all. Based on my one experience, I was very impressed.

I love Acronis yet never have used the clonig option.
So just for reference, did you boot from the rescue cd to do it as stated above?
Or from windows?

 

[BlueWeasel]

To be honest, I never do anything with Acronis from within Windows. I essentially install it, create the boot CD, and generally uninstall it. I use Acronis for partition images and disk cloning, and prefer to do both of those outside of Windows.

 

[corkyg]

Roger that, Blue Weasel! I clone drives every week - desktops, laptops, et al. Been cloning drives for several years, and learned long ago, always use the TI-created Rescue CDR or Flash Media (thumb drive.)

Several reason - you get a much better and more detailed GUI because there is no need to reboot during the process. A Linux GUI all the way! And it also avoids any possibility of a sharing violation that can screw things up. And, it is faster. And, it doesn't matter what OS you have on the HD - that never enters the equation. For Vista, you need version 11 or higher.