Clone disk to partition?

[wolvers]

Hi,

I want to clone a boot disk to a partition on another disk, is this possible? I've got 3 windows installations that I'd like to backup on one larger drive if possible.

Acronis doesn't seem to be able to do this as it wants to create all new partitions on the destination disk.

Thanks

 

[wolvers]

Thanks for your replies.

You can do a manual copy of all the data and then use another util (or your windows disk) to repair the boot files.

Wouldn't I have to put the HDDs in another machine to do this?

If you just want a backup though why not just image the 3 installs into separate ghost images and store them somewhere?

Imaging, that's something that I need to learn about. I've always just cloned my HDDs. If I create an image of each install, how do I use those images to restore an install if, say, a HDD fails?

 

[wolvers]

Thanks for the links MoodyB. DriveImage XML seems simple to use in Windows to create the image. I guess I can use one of the others to restore the image to a drive rather than have to mess about with BartPE?