Trying to copy HDD, any one good with Any of you familiar with 'acronis true image'

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Hi, my last post is a bit of a mess so thought id start fresh.
I want to copy my C: drive exactly to my new HDD so that i can remove the current C: drive.
I have acronis true image installed but was wondering if any of you have it/have used it.
There is an option to create an image of the entire disk/or partition.
So im guessing i do that but then it tells me to set the destination for this back up, i select my new B: drive but it is going to save it as
'B:\MyBackup.tib'
Im no expert but im guessing if i remove my C: drive after doing this B: wont run as the main drive and run the OS automaticly as it will all be in a folder?
What should i do?

(also on a sub note its a 1Tb disk but when i installed it and when ive formated it it says its max space is 931Gb? Is this correct?)
 
Run Acronis True Image, on main screen click "Operations" then click "Clone" - it'll do exactly what you want. When done just remove the old drive and you're sorted.

edit: on your sub-note Yes that's fine and normal - manufacturers quote it as a 1Tb drive because it has 1,000,000,000,000 bytes - which due to binary notation doesn't equal 1000Gb (in fact it's 1,000,198,893,568 bytes = 931Gb)!
 
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this is how I use acronis..

create a live boot cd of acronis (in the options somewhere)

insert new drive


boot from cd.

create image of drive1, and save the image as drive1.tib on drive 2.

boot into windows
move drive1.tib from drive2 to drive 1

boot from cd, restore, choose 'drive1.tib' and choose drive2 as the destination

they way you have a backup image incase, and the data from drive1 is now on drive2

turn off machine, unplug drive1 and carry on as normal :)
 
Ok, done that and it worked fine. There is an exact copy of C drive now labled F drive.
Now how do i get windows to boot from the new HDD not the origional with out unpluging it.
I looked in bios but thats just what type of device, not which HDD so im guessing i chose with in windows sumwhere?
Or should i unplug the C drive, let it boot once with the new drive, then plug it bak in, hope it boots with the new drive again and then go for the format?

THanks
 
I should note it doesn't give me the opption to pick from either hard drive like when you have 2 different OS's, but i put this down to it being the same os, or does this mean its not registering that there are 2 os's installed, or is the new one not working correctly?
One idea i had is, couldnt i realocate the neames on the drives, so change C drive to B and the new copy (currently F) to C? Would that work, or is there a very simple way of doing it in windows?
I googled it but all i get is how to change your boot so it boots from a HDD in the bios not floppy or cd etc.
THanks
 
I red somthing about changing or copying your boot.ini file?
And changing part of it from 0 to 1 which is which disk the pc boots from, but i cant find my boot.ini file and i dont know what to do with it. lol.
Sorry, thanks for any help.

Also, would another option to be just switch the data cables around?
 
Sorry, edited my first word lol.

It's just the OS that is the issue, plug the dirves into a 32bit OS and use the software to clone the drive over.

Or, more simply follow Bledd's instructions to stop you from having to faff around with a differrent OS.
 
bledd. said:
this is how I use acronis..

create a live boot cd of acronis (in the options somewhere)

insert new drive


boot from cd.

create image of drive1, and save the image as drive1.tib on drive 2.

boot into windows
move drive1.tib from drive2 to drive 1

boot from cd, restore, choose 'drive1.tib' and choose drive2 as the destination

they way you have a backup image incase, and the data from drive1 is now on drive2

turn off machine, unplug drive1 and carry on as normal :)
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Last time I tried booting from an Acronis Live Disk (one I created a couple of years ago mind) it failed to recognise any hard drives being plugged in.
 
miniyazz said:
Last time I tried booting from an Acronis Live Disk (one I created a couple of years ago mind) it failed to recognise any hard drives being plugged in.
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Newer ones have drivers for newer chipsets and thus now work.
 
PiKe said:
Newer ones have drivers for newer chipsets and thus now work.
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Fair enough. But ICH10R's been around since '06 hasn't it? Or did I just pull that year out of the air? :p

EDIT: I pulled that year out the air, just checked wiki and it was June '08
 
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