Acronis will allow you to clone any partition onto another drive. You get the option to recreate the partition or simply use the whole disk.
Hard drive cloning help
Hopefully you guys will be able to help me with this
My mate has a 160GB SATA hard drive in his computer, and just bought him a new 320GB one as an upgrade. His current drive has 1 160GB partition of windows vista. Would it be possible to use software like acronis to clone the 160GB onto the 320GB, but in the whole 320GB partition? I don't want to have half of the new drive unused - I just want to copy over all his data onto the new drive, with an extra 160GB of space.
So, is this possible?
Sorry if my post is confusing, I don't know how to say it really
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My mate has a 160GB SATA hard drive in his computer, and just bought him a new 320GB one as an upgrade. His current drive has 1 160GB partition of windows vista. Would it be possible to use software like acronis to clone the 160GB onto the 320GB, but in the whole 320GB partition? I don't want to have half of the new drive unused - I just want to copy over all his data onto the new drive, with an extra 160GB of space.
So, is this possible?
Sorry if my post is confusing, I don't know how to say it really
Thanks
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...he's asking whether or not you can clone a smaller drive to a bigger drive while still being able to use the rest of the space that's left off. AKA 320gb-160gb=160gb of unused space. To be honest I'm not sure since I've never clone any drive as I would always start off anew or backup files manually through copy and paste.
I thought about this to though...wondering if you should be able to just format the new 320gb drive and then clone it. Then after the cloning...you still have the rest of the drive available when you formatted it
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Try waiting for someone who understands your situation that has cloned drives before since I don't know if that would actually work
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Originally Posted by woodpigeon4  Hopefully you guys will be able to help me with this My mate has a 160GB SATA hard drive in his computer, and just bought him a new 320GB one as an upgrade. His current drive has 1 160GB partition of windows vista. Would it be possible to use software like acronis to clone the 160GB onto the 320GB, but in the whole 320GB partition? I don't want to have half of the new drive unused - I just want to copy over all his data onto the new drive, with an extra 160GB of space. So, is this possible? Sorry if my post is confusing, I don't know how to say it really
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Originally Posted by IdPlease Acronis will allow you to clone any partition onto another drive. You get the option to recreate the partition or simply use the whole disk. |
I thought about this to though...wondering if you should be able to just format the new 320gb drive and then clone it. Then after the cloning...you still have the rest of the drive available when you formatted it
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Right, that's what I was looking for, thanks. So I can use acronis and then resize with gparted? Or is there any better software? I can get any software out there.
Originally Posted by Raptor_Jesus I have done it, but with G4L. I'm sure you can do it with Acronis too. I image it, then use gparted to resize my partition. Works like a champ. Gparted: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ |
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Well I use G4L. It's my first choice in HDD cloning/backup/imaging. However, the ncurses text-only has a way of intimidating people, lol. If you have acronis, I would stick with it.
Originally Posted by woodpigeon4 Right, that's what I was looking for, thanks. So I can use acronis and then resize with gparted? Or is there any better software? I can get any software out there. |
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Acronis will do it all for you. But other options will work also
Originally Posted by IdPlease To restore the data, you can use a larger disk and get Acronis to stretch the whole partition. At least thats how I used it. The other solution will be to make a backup, restore image, then use the Acronis disk director to resize the partition. |
Acronis will do it all for you. But other options will work also
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I have done this at least 10 times using Acronis True Image trial version. It will do exactly what you are asking. I like Acronis the best. I have tried others with no success.
Originally Posted by woodpigeon4 OK - I've given you all +rep, but I would appreciate an answer from someone who has actually done this, anyone out there? |
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Thanks - can you by any chance tell me the steps i.e. what buttons to click
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Sorry to sound so n00by, but I don't want to lose his data or anything.
Originally Posted by stanglx302 I have done this at least 10 times using Acronis True Image trial version. It will do exactly what you are asking. I like Acronis the best. I have tried others with no success. |
Sorry to sound so n00by, but I don't want to lose his data or anything.
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Yes. Just install it then open it. Then you'll see a button that says utilities. Just click on it and select copy drive. Pick the source drive (the old one) then the destination drive (the new one). Then it does all the rest. It is so easy to use, you won't believe it.
Originally Posted by woodpigeon4 Thanks - can you by any chance tell me the steps i.e. what buttons to click
Sorry to sound so n00by, but I don't want to lose his data or anything. |
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Sounds great, thanks
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Originally Posted by stanglx302 Yes. Just install it then open it. Then you'll see a button that says utilities. Just click on it and select copy drive. Pick the source drive (the old one) then the destination drive (the new one). Then it does all the rest. It is so easy to use, you won't believe it. |
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