Help needed with Acronis True Image.

[nebula]

I just recently started using Acronis and it started out great. I put in a new drive the other day and used the clone option to transfer my data from the old drive, worked great. Now I put in another new drive and I partitioned it in XP setup with a 15gb OS partition and the rest data. Now I want to move my data from the old drive which also had the same partiiton scheme but I can't seem to get Acronis to do it. I want to use the clone option just like I did before but I get an error saying, "the destination drive has multiple partitions, I can't do it..."

It seems odd the me that it won't let me choose just a single partition to clone, it only lets me select the entire physical drive. I must be doing something wrong since this seems to me like it should be able to do this since Acronis is highly regarded. I thought Drive Image handled this no problem but didn't like it's TSRs.

Summary:

New drive - C: 15gb OS, H: 285gb data
Old drive - I: 20gb OS(gone), J: 180gb data

I want J > H I tried just copy/pasting (reluctantly) and it didn't finish in 7 hours!

I can see all the drives/partitions/ and data in Explorer.

 

[BlueWeasel]

Are you trying to do from within Windows, or by using the Acronis boot CD? If you are using the Boot CD, then try it in Windows, and vice versa.

Not exactly rocket science, but it might work.

 

[Homerboy]

Well isnt it a DISK imaging program? Not a partition copying/management program?

 

[nebula]

Originally posted by: BlueWeasel
Are you trying to do from within Windows, or by using the Acronis boot CD? If you are using the Boot CD, then try it in Windows, and vice versa.

Not exactly rocket science, but it might work.

Only tried in the Win environment so far, but I've been Googling a bit and I think what I've found is Acronis can't do partition to partition using the clone option. But how you do it is you make an image of drive #1 and restore it to drive #2. I was just hoping someone would post saying that the "faster" way works. They really should add that functionality. Maybe I should check for updates...

 

[BlueWeasel]

Check your PMs 😉

 

[nebula]

Originally posted by: Homerboy
Well isnt it a DISK imaging program? Not a partition copying/management program?

I suppose so but how hard can it be to allow single partition cloning? Others apps can do it. Really it doesn't have to be cloning, just partition to partition copying. Using Explorer to copy large amounts of data from one drive to another just seems kludgy and feels unreliable to me, besides it's slow and doesn't always work!

In manual mode I noticed it says it does allow changing partition sizes.