I'm cloning a hard drive and very confused

[Sandan]

The drive I want to clone is a WD120Gig non-SATA. It is split into 3 partitions roughly 40Gigs each. My new drive is WD250Gig SATAII. Currently have it split into 4 partitions roughly 60Gigs each. I want to move Vista from first partition on old drive to first partition on New drive so it will be bootable. I don't care about the stuff on the other partitions of old drive. Where I am confused is can I only clone the partition from old drive with Vista? Or do I have to do it all. If I do it all should I format the new drive to be one large partition in order to fit the 120Gigs....Very confusing. Thanks.

 

[MustISO]

You should be able to do a single partition to another partition.

 

[Sandan]

Well I worked through True Image 10 and it said it would format the new drive and add all my old stuff....But, it didn't work. The system rebooted and notified me that it completed successfully but nothing was on the new drive. I quess I will just clean install Vista on the new drive.

 

[corkyg]

With TrueImage 10: Here's the cloning procedure.

1. Create the bootable CD
2. Boot with it
3. When TI loads, select CLONE
4. Next select MANUAL
5. Next delete all partitions on TARGET drive
6. Keep all data and partitions on SOURCE drive.
7. Proportional if the drive sizes are different.

Then you select the drives for Source and Target, and after an analysis, you get a screen with a PROCEED button. That's it. It will clone the whole drive, partitions and all, and be immediaely usable when done. Each partition is a separate run procedurally.

I don't know if the trial version will burn the CDR for you. Maybe not. But - once you have the bootable CD you can do any computer - no need to even install TI.

 

[Sandan]

corkyg...Thanks a lot. I will try your method. I tried to clone the drive directly from Windows and it didn't work. The instructions aren't that great with TI as it doesn't stand out to create a CD and do it from that.