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by: VaPhil August 13, 2012 11:29 AM PDT

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by VaPhil - 8/13/12 11:29 AM

I have a generic System 7 64 bit system with a 1 TB SATA drive. It has one hard drive which I have partitioned into 4 partitions, with C: being where I put all the system software. The board has mulitple SATA ports.

Change considered: cloning the C: partition onto a new SSD so that I can get the performance boost of an SSD. There are some heat problems with existing hard drive so I probably need to change it out, so I would also like to clone the D:, E:, and F: partitions to a new hard drive.

I have cloned a single physical drive to another physical drive, and the software (Ghost, or the like) usually handles it ok, so that all I need to do is adjust some partition sizes, and then disconnect the old hard drive and everyting is good. This includes cloning a single hard drive with multiple partitions to being cloned to a new single hard drive with identical numbers of partitions.

Compared to my prior experience, is there something different about cloning one partition only vs cloning the whole drive. My proposed plan is:
1) Install SSD
2) clone C: to SSD only
3) clone D: E: F: of old drive to new drive.
4) remove old drive.

Would this work? I apologize in advance for the lengthy post.
Phil

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Usuall fails.

by R. Proffitt Moderator - 8/13/12 4:59 PM

In Reply to: New disk drive -cloning one partition of multi-part drive by VaPhil

Try Acronis as it can shrink and more. The reason it fails is you copied partitions and the boot manager is not copied (Acronis does some extra steps.)


DATA DRIVES CLONE VERY WELL. OS? Not so well.

There's more to this as well when dealing with SSD. You may need some "alignment" tool and more. Your SSD supplier should answer your questions are my question is why buy from them?
Bob


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by VaPhil - 8/13/12 7:57 PM

In Reply to: Usuall fails. by R. Proffitt Moderator

Thank you for your help but I think some typos made your post a little unclear to me.

But here is what I understood.

My proposed plan would usually fail.
Acronis (which I do own) does a better job with more features than Ghost. (I have successfully used Acronis and thought it was a good tool.)
SSD's have some non-analogous features to regular disk drives which make cloning a disk to an SSD less straightfoward than cloning a partition of a hard drive to a hard drive.

I am mostly trying to avoid having to re-make my desktops etc. If there was a useful tool to transfer all that information than I could always do a new install onto the SSD, then transfer all the accounts and related data. Then clone or copy the data logical drives to a new physical drive.


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Sorry for the misspelling.

by R. Proffitt Moderator - 8/14/12 8:34 AM

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Acronis is your best shot. Since it's a clone you can always slip the old HDD back into place if it didn't work out.

Besides, everyone that does this has a backup copy of what they can't lose.
Bob


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by VaPhil - 8/14/12 11:10 AM

In Reply to: Sorry for the misspelling. by R. Proffitt Moderator

You answered my questions. Doing research, I learned I need an updated Acronis to assure compatibility with Windows 7.

I have a desktop and a laptop - all most important files are on both - I learned long ago never to bet my ranch on not having a reserve system.

Thanks again for your help.


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"Ranch"

by R. Proffitt Moderator - 8/14/12 11:32 AM

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Glad to read that!


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