Guest Gerald Ross Posted June 11, 2008 Posted June 11, 2008 I wanted to replace the 40 GB HD in my XP SP3 notebook. Booting from the Acronis CD I backed up both partitions (separately) to a USB hard drive. Then with power off I replaced the hard drive with a 120 GB one. Then booting on a Partition Commander CD I partitioned the new drive and formatted both to NTFS (not sure if this was necessary). Then Booted on Acronis CD and restored both partitions. When I restarted, windows came up and everything works just like it did before--no glitches or problems of any kind. Total restore time after starting removal of the old drive was 2 hr 15 min. Acronis True Image rules! -- Gerald Ross Cochran, GA The problem with learning to speed-read is you run out of comic books too fast.
Guest Big_Al Posted June 11, 2008 Posted June 11, 2008 Re: Replacing hard drive Gerald Ross wrote: > I wanted to replace the 40 GB HD in my XP SP3 notebook. > Booting from the Acronis CD I backed up both partitions (separately) to > a USB hard drive. Then with power off I replaced the hard drive with a > 120 GB one. Then booting on a Partition Commander CD I partitioned the > new drive and formatted both to NTFS (not sure if this was necessary). > Then Booted on Acronis CD and restored both partitions. > > When I restarted, windows came up and everything works just like it did > before--no glitches or problems of any kind. Total restore time after > starting removal of the old drive was 2 hr 15 min. > > Acronis True Image rules! Why didn't you just clone directly from the laptop to the new drive? No reply needed. I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt that the usb enclosure would not accommodate the new laptop drive. That would have allowed you to just clone directly and then a swap of hardware and save a lot of time. But Acronis is a good software package. It's worked every time for me so far.
Guest Lil' Dave Posted June 12, 2008 Posted June 12, 2008 Re: Replacing hard drive "Gerald Ross" <gwader@comsouth.net> wrote in message news:%23mksGn8yIHA.3968@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >I wanted to replace the 40 GB HD in my XP SP3 notebook. > Booting from the Acronis CD I backed up both partitions (separately) to a > USB hard drive. Then with power off I replaced the hard drive with a 120 > GB one. Then booting on a Partition Commander CD I partitioned the new > drive and formatted both to NTFS (not sure if this was necessary). Then > Booted on Acronis CD and restored both partitions. > Partitioning and formatting with Partition Commander was entirely unneeded, and, a waste of your time. -- Dave
Guest Gerald Ross Posted June 13, 2008 Posted June 13, 2008 Re: Replacing hard drive Lil' Dave wrote: > "Gerald Ross" <gwader@comsouth.net> wrote in message > news:%23mksGn8yIHA.3968@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >>I wanted to replace the 40 GB HD in my XP SP3 notebook. >> Booting from the Acronis CD I backed up both partitions (separately) to a >> USB hard drive. Then with power off I replaced the hard drive with a 120 >> GB one. Then booting on a Partition Commander CD I partitioned the new >> drive and formatted both to NTFS (not sure if this was necessary). Then >> Booted on Acronis CD and restored both partitions. >> > > Partitioning and formatting with Partition Commander was entirely unneeded, > and, a waste of your time. > That's what I thought, especially after Acronis announced that it was deleting the partition before it restored the files. -- Gerald Ross Cochran, GA The universe is laughing behind your back.
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