Acronis True Image Home 2010 Plus Pack for free (2 Licences worth £46)

this_is_gav said:
*off topic*


I'm sure there are ways using Acronis, but I've recently used this method:

Within the Windows you are capturing, run Disk2vhd (free). It creates a virtual hard drive image of the OS (in Virtual PC format). I then used WinImage ($30, but there is a trial) to convert it from VHD format to VMDK (VM disk) and used VMWare to boot from that - it worked straight out of the box. Oddly, the original Virtual PC image didn't boot, but the VM conversion of it did... used this method on a couple of servers (even using various RAID arrays) to test a migration... if it works with that hardware on Server 2003 and 2008, you'll have to be really unlucky for it not to work on XP!

The only negative is that you'll have to reactivate the OS when in the VM due to the obvious change of "hardware".
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alternatively use vmware converter which will convert the acronis image to a virtual machine

cheers to the OP for the heads up btw
 
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Glad people are finding this thread helpful and thanks to Blackbadger for the bootable CD download tip. :)
 
if you burn the iso to disc and boot from that you can clone a single partition, not tried the exe version though
 
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Trying to copy just a single partition from my intel raid array to a partition on a separate drive.

Google says I need to create a backup image of the partition and then restore that image to my new drive
 
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