Cloning my HDD image

Hazaro · May 31, 2008

Old Hippie · Jun 1, 2008

You could make a partition on your "C" drive that only includes the data.

That would eliminate the empty space that Acronis is trying to clone.

Hazaro · Jun 1, 2008

That's one work around, but really I don't think I should have to do that.

But it looks like I might have to do that.

Old Hippie · Jun 1, 2008

Originally posted by: Hazaro
That's one work around, but really I don't think I should have to do that.

But it looks like I might have to do that.

There's one other thing you could try, but it's never worked for me.

In the settings for your back-up, you can manually specify the amount of compression you want to use.
You could crank-up the compression to make the image smaller, but like I said, it's never worked for me.

Hazaro · Jun 1, 2008

Just take Acronis True Image or Norton Ghost and image your current system drive, which I believe is the 640GB, to the 250GB, period. That's all that's necessary, not a "cloning" operation at all: you're imaging the entire 640GB drive and storing the image file on the 250GB. Should be more reliable and you can then verify the image creation after you're done to make sure it's 100% complete without issues and bit-for-bit accurate with the original drive's contents.

Stop thinking of just a copy operation I suppose and just do proper image of the entire 640GB drive. That should be relatively easy to handle, right?

Make the 250GB one big Extended partition and put one big Logical drive on it, then image the 640GB and store it on the 250GB, done.

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That was posted by someone else, would this get me a working bootable drive with all my data on it?

I'm not very good with HDD things at all...

Old Hippie · Jun 1, 2008

"Now I see" said the blind Old Hippie!

You're not gonna "Clone" that image to a smaller HD.

If you want a back-up image, use the "Back-up and Restore" option.

You can then restore that image to make a bootable drive.

Hazaro · Jun 2, 2008

Originally posted by: Old Hippie
"Now I see" said the blind Old Hippie!

You're not gonna "Clone" that image to a smaller HD.

If you want a back-up image, use the "Back-up and Restore" option.

You can then restore that image to make a bootable drive.

I do?

I want my OS, data, installed programs all to be bootable from the 250GB HDD (Which is empty).
All of my data along with my OS is on the 640GB.

Doesn't

Originally posted by: Old Hippie
You could make a partition on your "C" drive that only includes the data.

That would eliminate the empty space that Acronis is trying to clone.

still work?

I'm confused

Narse · Jun 2, 2008

I have used Ghost many times to clone a larger drive to a smaller drive as long as the data on the larger drive could fit. I have also gone from a larger drive to an image file on a smaller drive

Old Hippie · Jun 3, 2008

I feel you're getting confused because of the terminology.

A clone is an exact bit by bit copy.
An image is a compressed snapshot.

Seems Acronis doesn't like cloning 640GB to 250GB.

If you want to make a clone that is immediately bootable and useable, I would try

1. Format your 250GB
2. Partition the empty space out of the C drive. (You shouldn't need to do this, but I'm taking all precautions)
3. Go for it!

I can't really tell how much actual data you have on the C drive, but if the actual data is less than 232.9GB, Acronis should cooperate. You could check this by looking at the drive's properties.

If it doesn't, my next stop would be Acronis support.

Good Luck!

Hazaro · Jun 3, 2008

I have 150GB of data on the 640GB.

I am still looking to clone.

It seems like I am going to go with the separate partition route.

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