11-10-14 09:05 TOM WALKER wrote to ED VANCE about Acronis TI Clone

 TW> {at}MSGID: 
 EV>Tom,
 EV>My first try using Acronis TI making a clone of my Vista notebook to
 EV>the bigger drive in the adapter, I thought would work as I watched
 EV>it progress, but it didn't.
-snip-
 EV>Here we go loop-a-de-loop.
 EV>Thanks for suggesting I should Clone instead of Backup and then change
 EV>HDDs.

 EV>One thing I didn't expect was as it was doing the Clone it increased
 EV>the size of the 3 partitions on the new HDD, where I wouldn't have to
 EV>use Disk Management to resize them as what I've learned I'd have to do
 EV>if I Restored a Backup to the new HDD.
 EV>73

 TW> I am speechless. I have cloned dozens of times with Acronis and
 TW> never had a glitch. I made the TI Boot disk and always boot to
 TW> that disk for the Cloning process. Is that what you did?

Howdy! Tom,

I ran the clone after starting TI and telling UAC I wanted it in an
Admin Account.

Sunday, I started a 2nd clone, TI said it had to ReBOOT to start the
Clone process and it saw the partitions on the new HDD and asked to
Delete them before it could start the clone, so I let it remove them.

I got all the way through and saw the message that I successfully
completed the HDD cloaning, and it said to press any key to shut down.

After it shut down, I pressed the power button and let the pc start up
while I still had the USB Adapter connected to the pc with the newly
cloned HDD still attached to it.

I saw the Black Screen with the message saying "Acronis True Image Home
Completed." and when the message disappeared the screen stayed Black
for about 90 seconds and then Vista started up and I Logged On.

I looked at things in Windows Explorer and saw the F: and G: partitions
showed up in the listing along with the C:, D: drives and the E: CD-ROM
drive.

I tried to click the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon and select the F & G
drive letters before I turned the pc off but after three times getting
the message box saying that it couldn't remove the F: and G: I Turned
the pc OFF and removed the USB connector and powered it up again to see
if it started up O.K., and it did.

I haven't had time to put the bigger HDD in the box yet to see if all
is O.K. or not.

If it doesn't work this time I will do another clone by using the TI
Boot CD even if it does complain about the Region 7 problem I saw B4.


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