11-10-14 09:05 TOM WALKER wrote to ED VANCE about Acronis TI Clone   
      
    TW> @MSGID: <546145CC.13639.windowsa@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    EV>Tom,   
    EV>My first try using Acronis TI making a clone of my Vista notebook to   
    EV>the bigger drive in the adapter, I thought would work as I watched   
    EV>it progress, but it didn't.   
   -snip-   
    EV>Here we go loop-a-de-loop.   
    EV>Thanks for suggesting I should Clone instead of Backup and then change   
    EV>HDDs.   
      
    EV>One thing I didn't expect was as it was doing the Clone it increased   
    EV>the size of the 3 partitions on the new HDD, where I wouldn't have to   
    EV>use Disk Management to resize them as what I've learned I'd have to do   
    EV>if I Restored a Backup to the new HDD.   
    EV>73   
      
    TW> I am speechless. I have cloned dozens of times with Acronis and   
    TW> never had a glitch. I made the TI Boot disk and always boot to   
    TW> that disk for the Cloning process. Is that what you did?   
      
   Howdy! Tom,   
      
   I ran the clone after starting TI and telling UAC I wanted it in an   
   Admin Account.   
      
   Sunday, I started a 2nd clone, TI said it had to ReBOOT to start the   
   Clone process and it saw the partitions on the new HDD and asked to   
   Delete them before it could start the clone, so I let it remove them.   
      
   I got all the way through and saw the message that I successfully   
   completed the HDD cloaning, and it said to press any key to shut down.   
      
   After it shut down, I pressed the power button and let the pc start up   
   while I still had the USB Adapter connected to the pc with the newly   
   cloned HDD still attached to it.   
      
   I saw the Black Screen with the message saying "Acronis True Image Home   
   Completed." and when the message disappeared the screen stayed Black   
   for about 90 seconds and then Vista started up and I Logged On.   
      
   I looked at things in Windows Explorer and saw the F: and G: partitions   
   showed up in the listing along with the C:, D: drives and the E: CD-ROM   
   drive.   
      
   I tried to click the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon and select the F & G   
   drive letters before I turned the pc off but after three times getting   
   the message box saying that it couldn't remove the F: and G: I Turned   
   the pc OFF and removed the USB connector and powered it up again to see   
   if it started up O.K., and it did.   
      
   I haven't had time to put the bigger HDD in the box yet to see if all   
   is O.K. or not.   
      
   If it doesn't work this time I will do another clone by using the TI   
   Boot CD even if it does complain about the Region 7 problem I saw B4.   
      
      
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