Cloneing with True Image 10.0

[paulgood]

I have two hard drives on a WinXP Pro system. (both are in removable trays but are "internal".

I use one as my main hard drive (c) and one as my backup and experimental hard drive (f).

Both have Winxp pro on them and are bootable. (though naturally I only boot off the "c" drive) I leave both in the computer at the same time, although from time to time I remove one and just boot off the other and save some work on it.

I would like to play it safe and clone my main "c" hard drive onto my "f" drive, realizing it will wipe anything on the "F" drive and replace it with an exact copy of my "c" drive.

My only question is: the instructions say that in cloneing, "you have to remove the old hard drive when data moving is complete".

I would like to continue to use my original "c" drive and continue to boot from it. I would also like to keep the new "f" drive with all the "c" information in the computer, in case I want to save something to it. (at that point it wouldn't be a true clone..but I could use it to boot from if something happened to my good "c" drive)

Why must I remove my source "c" drive after cloneing?

Thanks

[DwnNdrty]

That is only for the first boot up of the newly cloned drive, which you should test to see if you got a successful clone. Afterwards you can reconnect the original C drive and continue to use it as your original with the F drive connected also.

In fact I have two trays in my desktop also. One is of course connected as the Master on the Primary channel and the other is connected as Master (D) on the Secondary. Occasionally I would clone my C to D, use the power key switch on the racks to remove power to the C drive and restart the system after cloning. Once I know the clone was good, I shutdown, re-power the C drive and restart with both drives connected.

[paulgood]

Thanks for the info.

We run our hard drives the same way :-) Both of mine are Western Digital 120 gigs.

Again, appreciate your input.

[Acronis Support]

Hello paulgood,

Thank you for choosing Acronis Disk Backup Software.

Please notice that DwnNdrty is right. After cloning one of the drives needs to be removed for the first boot to avoid Windows confusion described here. After the first boot you can reconnect the second drive and boot from it as well. Don't forget to set chosen drive as boot one in BIOS.

You can find the detailed instructions on how to use Acronis True Image 10.0 Home in the respective User's Guide.

Thank you.
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Marat Setdikov