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Acronis disk cloning

pontifex

pontifex

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so last night i cloned the drive that contains my windows installation onto a new drive.
when i tried to boot off the drive, it kept saying ntldr was missing but when i went into the windows repair console, i could see it. i replaced that and ntdetct.com and still got the error.

had to do a repair installation in the end to get it to work.

now, did i do something wrong in acronis and that is why this happened or what?
i'ved used acronis at least once before to do this same exact procedure and didn't have any issues.

did i just forget how i did it the last time and screwed it up this time or what?
 
This may be an obvious question but I think I missed it last time I cloned. Did you change your BIOS first boot drive to the new drive once the system restarted?
 
Most new systems auto check all designated drives in the boot sequence. What OS are you using? If Vista, only TI-11 works without having to do a repair. Also, I alwaysuse the Acronis TI Rescue CD (self-prepared) for cloning. Doing it withijn Windows often produces errors becausde of the excessively layered operational sequence and lousy GUI.
 
Originally posted by: mc866
This may be an obvious question but I think I missed it last time I cloned. Did you change your BIOS first boot drive to the new drive once the system restarted?
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no, but i removed the old drive when acronis told me i needed to reboot to finish, so the old drive wasn't in at all.
 
Originally posted by: corkyg
Most new systems auto check all designated drives in the boot sequence. What OS are you using? If Vista, only TI-11 works without having to do a repair. Also, I alwaysuse the Acronis TI Rescue CD (self-prepared) for cloning. Doing it withijn Windows often produces errors becausde of the excessively layered operational sequence and lousy GUI.
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Using XP

At work we use Ghost and it asks if this is a system drive and does something special. There wasn't anything like that in Acronis when I did it last night, but maybe I was in the wrong menu or something? I chose all the options to do everything manually, but didn't see anything about settings for a system drive.
 
I just did my laptop using Ghost 2003 and an IDE to USB adapter cable.
I used the Ghost Clone function. After it was done, I rebooted, did a Safe
Remove of the USB drive and shut down. Next I removed old drive and
installed new one ... It booted right up

Corkyg .. new drive is working fine ... a letter is enroute to you. .. Thanks
 
i use acronis back ups usually work fine.. did u boot from the cd to make the image, or did u do it in the xp
 
Originally posted by: jae
i use acronis back ups usually work fine.. did u boot from the cd to make the image, or did u do it in the xp
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i inititated the cloning in XP but it reboots and does the cloning before windows starts.
 
I boot off my Acronis disk and have had many successful clones. The only problem I am starting to run into is hard drive controller drivers that aren't on the disk. I am sure Acronis would love to sell me something that would fix that.
 
Originally posted by: ketchup79
I boot off my Acronis disk and have had many successful clones. The only problem I am starting to run into is hard drive controller drivers that aren't on the disk. I am sure Acronis would love to sell me something that would fix that.
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That is really odd. I have never found a drive that TI could not handle using the bootable CDR. It does my PATA, SATA, Firewire, and USB drive. What else is there?

 
That is really odd. I have never found a drive that TI could not handle using the bootable CDR. It does my PATA, SATA, Firewire, and USB drive. What else is there?
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In this case, it was a SATA drive on a Dell XPS 400 desktop (BTX). I had two drives hooked up at the time, and it couldn't find either one.
 
Originally posted by: ketchup79
In this case, it was a SATA drive on a Dell XPS 400 desktop (BTX). I had two drives hooked up at the time, and it couldn't find either one.
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If the SATA drive was internal, it should be no problem. Acronis sees SATA as SCSI. I assume they were active and seen by the Dell XPS 400 OS?.
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Beware. Only Acronis True Image 11 works for me in both XP and Vista. I also only use the boot CD cloning option. That has been 100% effective for me in both operating systems. I can boot off of the cloned drive and there is no difference.
True Image 10 did NOT work right and I had nothing but trouble with its clones...
 
Originally posted by: pontifex
Originally posted by: mc866
This may be an obvious question but I think I missed it last time I cloned. Did you change your BIOS first boot drive to the new drive once the system restarted?
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no, but i removed the old drive when acronis told me i needed to reboot to finish, so the old drive wasn't in at all.
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it still needs to be pointed at in bios as the boot drive though
 
Originally posted by: johnpombrio
Beware. Only Acronis True Image 11 works for me in both XP and Vista. I also only use the boot CD cloning option. That has been 100% effective for me in both operating systems. I can boot off of the cloned drive and there is no difference.
True Image 10 did NOT work right and I had nothing but trouble with its clones...
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TI 11 is the only one that works in Vista without having to do a post clone repair. TI-10 works perfectly in XP, however - but not Vista.
 
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