Swapped the newly cloned 2TB disk for the old 500GB, rebooted and voila. and restarted the computer.Īfter the boot, I waited until it settled down (super-carefully making sure that everything was running normally) then shut it down again. I'd set the check box to turn off the computer after the clone finished.(25 mins)īefore I rebooted I switched off the USB3 dock. Started DiscWizard, it called for a reboot, and the clone proceeded in 'DOS'. Which was what I was aiming at, with neither drive needing to be disturbed at this point. The target 2TB disk stayed where it was in the USB3 dock, and the source 500GB system (storage and a few programs) disk remained in its position in the tower. I used Seagate DiscWizard (which, for those who didn't know, is a free Acronis app that also comes in a WD version) OK, here's a heads-up: The cloning job turned out to be a real breeze. I don't know about W7 32bit.įWIW, here's a list of apps I've either tried, or just noted because of a claim to contain a proper clone facility:Īcronis Disk Director, Acronis True Image, Casper, DiscWizard (Seagate Acronis), DiscWizard (WD Acronis), HandyBackup, HDClone, Macrium Reflect, MiniTool Partition Wizard, Paragon Drive Copy, R-Drive Image, Terabyte Drive Image, TeraByte Drive Image Backup & Restore Suite, AOMEI Backupper, Clone Disk, CloneZilla Sadly, the Migrate Easy app doesn't work in W7. I'd mount both old and new drives as slaves in a workshop computer - the new drive out of the box, untouched, unformatted - and the process would run in Windows.

I used it most often when a customer had a failing drive. This was my app of choice during my XP days, and never let me down, whether the clone was to a smaller or larger drive. Also tried SATA3 on the MB with a good SATA data cable.For anyone using Windows XP, I can guarantee a successful and stress-free clone job if Acronis Migrate Easy is used. Repeat the earlier procedure and Acronis gives same error, needs two HDD's to clone. So I boot the PC normally with the 2cd drive attached, go into the Bios this time and it's there. So after finding out the new Dell won't recognize F12 on my existing nice standard Lenova wired keyboard(?), I placed the CD in the drive, power off the PC, attach my HDD to the upper black cable and power cable, and power on, hit F12, boot off the CD, and Acronis does not see the second drive.

Acronis itself was never installed on the my old main HD, takes up room and goes thru the same procedure. So usually on my HP, I place my version 2016 Acronis boot CD in, power off the PC, attach my target HDD and boot off the CD and clone, using the Shutdown after cloning option (or else if rebooted, your cloned drive won't be boot-able). Got my new Dell XPS 8930 in, loaded a bunch of software on the only drive, a 512gb SSD PCIe card, and went to clone it to a Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm SATA HDD.

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