Quick Acronis Question

Hi All,

I'm probably going to get a new HDD soon, as my current one is running low on space. I'm thinking about cloning the drive with Acronis. I have one question though. I have several programs installed from Giveaway of the Day that I find pretty useful. Will Acronis keep these giveaways intact, or will the cloning break the registration?

Thanks.

 

After cloning your old drive to the new one, you will have the exact copy of the old one with the OS, applications and even with your files. No registration needed.

 

No, it won't affect your registrations - I've cloned with Acronis several times and never had to reregister or reactivate any of the apps that were in the cloned installation.

 

Thanks for the help!

 

As an aside, when I saw the "Quick Acronis" part of the thread title, I thought "what a misnomer". Recently when swapping hard drives between two machines I had an opportunity to compare Acronis and my old standby Ghost 2003. In a side by side test of imagining the same partition, I found that Ghost was almost twice as fast. The image was being stored on the same physical drive as the original partition, although in a different partition of course. But I was surprised how much slower Acronis was. Both were compressing the image to about the same size. And both were running from bootable media.

I still kept and use Acronis though for some things as, unlike Ghost, Acronis did see my external firewire connected drive.

Gary

 

Gary,

Were you imaging that partition, or just imagining it?

 

Sorry to hijack this thread but is it possible to run acronis portably?
or does it need to be installed for it to run?

 

I don't think you can run it as a truly portable app; however, you can create a bootable CD from Acronis to use to recover using a previously created backup.

 

YIKES! Don't ya just love spell checkers. ...sigh...

Gary

 

I dunno, I thought it was a brillant lapsus linguae!