2nd Cloning ?

[AgedIdiot]

As prev. posted had to clone my Samsung HD to an old Hitachi HD.

Used Acronis - No problems.

Have been using the H. drive for a few days and I remembered why I stopped using it in the first place - noisy little b....

Have now swapped the Samsung for a W.D. 'Blue' drive - it's installed & running happily.

? having 'cloned' from Samsung to Hitachi can I 'clone' Hitachi to W.D. (using Acronis) without issue ? And then put the H drive back where it belongs (the spare box)

I have a recollection of reading an article some time ago that you could not do this '2nd Cloning' - but hopefullly I'm wrong .

On a different subject - Was anticipating that when I cloned it was possible that windows might object. It didn't - no problems at all until I installed new gpu drivers (9.1) then I had to re-register windows. No problems with windows registration just seemed odd that it was not a hardware change that , in the end, required it but rather a driver change .

Hopefully this is not required each time I update drivers as otherwise it will be at least once a month

 

[semi-pro waster]

I haven't done it but I see no logical reason why you couldn't clone the drive again, you're just copying digital data, it isn't as if it will degrade on further copying as analogue media would.

 

[Moeks]

As coincidence would have it, I actually did this today, I know it was me last time in your thread about it too ...what can I say, I have been playing with a lot of hard drives lately.

But yes you can indeed do that, I cloned a Samsung F1 to an old Seagate Barracuda 10 that was half the size and now I have cloned that onto a 1Tb Hitatchi Desktar. So I have a cloned OS that has gone from a 640Gb Samsung, to a 320Gb Seagate to a 1Tb Hitatchi. Everything works just fine, no problems at all, yet, despite the radical resizing of partitions.

Although I have kept the OS partition more or less the same throughout, it was 80GB on the Samsung, I knocked that down to 70GB on the Seagate and now I have put it back to 80 on the Hitatchi. The Secondary partition where I install larger programs, games and such and keep stuff, has changed size dramatically though, it's now 851GB.

 

[AgedIdiot]

Thanks for the replies - and the good news.

Will be cloning tommorrow

All o'k - went very smoothly. Thanks again for the assistance.