It would help to know more about your setup. Assuming you have both drives installed in a desktop machine with the original as the master and the...
I think your problem is that WIndows XP will not let you boot from an external USB drive....period. Here's how you can clone your drive: 1)...
I have used both. I would recommend cloning with TI rather than DW if you really want an exact copy, but only after running checkdisk or fdisk or...
Well said. This is another example of Acronis' refusing to do the honorable thing and provide at least ONE fully functional program (whether TI...
To be sure that all Dell pc restore, diagnostic, media direct and other features work you MUST create an image of the ENTIRE hard drive by...
About a year ago I discovered the hard way (lost data) that TrueImage 8 failed to capture ALL used sectors as Acronis claimed it did in its...
Again, your comments about a DELL computer being influenced by Dell's hidden restore partition are completely wrong! Quoting someone who you...
As has already been said, your formatted capacity of 75G seems about right for an 80G drive. Also, part of the loss could be due to any good...
Have you stepped through the Add New Disk functions as suggested above? After doing so, are you saying that TI reports your drive has 54G of...
Before you do anything else, launch TI and select Add New Disk. Step through the screens and choose to delete all partitions on your target 100G...
You probably won't have to but, if you do, you'll use the CD to boot and step carefully through the prompts to repair the mbr and not reinstall...
1) Create an image of your entire drive, including all partitions, by selecting the checkbox for the entire disk, and save it to an external USB...
You can delete the Dell PC Restore partition because you decided it has no real value to you. Fortunately, the Dell Diagnostic partition will...
That's partially true. The newest XPS systems which have the embedded Ghost 10 partitions with the 90-day trial MAY be problematical but the rest...
Dell may be offering the 90-day trial version of Ghost only on the XPS series. Inspirons, Latitudes and other Dells use the older Dell-standard...
I think you mean well but I have to strongly disagree with your characterization of what can and cannot be done to a Dell-imaged drive and what...
I don't know why some advice givers get so proprietary and sensitive about their suggestions but that's not my problem.... To address your...
It looks like you missed my post, above. It answers your questions. If you follow XPilot's advice you will destroy your Dell PC Restore...
This is a simple and proper procedure to follow. To add a little further for your understanding of how your Dell 80GB drive is currently set up:...
To make an exact copy you can either create an image and store it on another media or drive or you can use the clone feature and clone your drive...
Plug in the USB drive, boot the new laptop with the Acronis Recovery CD and clone from the USB drive to the laptop drive.
You should have. Not many TI users say they have more than one internal drive but many, including myself, use external USB drives. Also,...
Unfortunately, when you do that you can no longer safely disconnect your external USB drive unless you shut down first.
I don't have the answer but my experience has always been the same using TI8 and 9. After I TI-restore a complete image of my original Dell...
After cloning is done, you get an Acronis screen which only lets you QUIT the program. When you quit, your machine automatically restarts. You...
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