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    is Acronis Image Home 2009 the next version of Acronis True Image 11 ??

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by miro_gt, Feb 7, 2009.

  1. miro_gt

    miro_gt Notebook Deity

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    I need to know before I start cloning my OS to another HDD

    thanks
     
    miro_gt, Feb 7, 2009
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    gengerald Technofile Extraordinaire

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    Believe so. It is now Vista capable.
     
    gengerald, Feb 8, 2009
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    Yeah, it can clone. The option is in the Utilities menu.

    However, I'm trying to clone my 160GB HDD into a 250GB partition of my 500GB HDD .. and Acronis says that it will do it, but will not care about partitions on my new HDD but rather will make it one partition of 500GB and move my old one onto it.

    and I want to end up with two partitions of 250GB each, one with my cloned stuff and one empty. But Windows will not let me resize already established partitions so .. if Acronis creates only one partition then things get bad. I'll have to use Partition Magic or other ptogram to fix that issue after Acronis clone the HDD.

    or because of that, I may just do clean install again .. which will suck.
     
    miro_gt, Feb 8, 2009
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    I have used Partition Magic in the past with great success. Just make sure you adjust your power settings to always on prior to restart. I believe Acronis has a partition program as well.
     
    gengerald, Feb 8, 2009
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    Acronis Image Home 2009

    works great here
     
    onebyside, Feb 8, 2009
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    Yes, it is.
     
    Shyster1, Feb 8, 2009
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    yeah, got it.

    I went with custom clone so it poped the menus where you specify the partitions and such, so it worked great.

    it didn't require making of bootable CD though, as I've heard the 11 version does that. Just that cloning 125GB partition took forever .. like 4 hours or so.
     
    miro_gt, Feb 8, 2009
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