How to clone your disk with Acronis True Image

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[davefrance]

I use this all the time, its a great utility.
The only issue I had recently was cloning a standard drive to an SSD drive. Eventually I figured out that using the slower cloning sector by sector operation worked a treat.

I use this to backup my drives too.
I backup my disks to a USB drive, then if I ever need to recover, I boot from Acronis, select the file and restore it to the new disk.

[davidmoffett]

It works perfectly fine. I've used Acronis for years. The only thing that would make the cloned disk non bootable is if you cloned it to an external drive. If you only have one drive bay take out the source drive put it into an external enclosure. Install new drive into the machine and then clone it. That method works flawlessly and will boot without any issues. I hope this helps. I am in no way affiliated with Acronis but I use this tool on a daily basis and have never had an issue once I understood the process.

[burnastelo]

Decent program. I got it to work eventually but took almost a week of trying things.
Important steps for beginners:
1. The new drive MUST be inserted INSIDE the device. The clone WILL NOT work if your new drive is plugged in externally. Even if other software like Macrium says they can do this, acronis cannot.
2. In order to access Acronis cloning app while your new disk is inserted internally you must have acronis loaded to a usb or cd.
3. Load Acronis app by putting usb in conputer and tuening on + following prompts.
Plug in old drive via external usb/sata adaptor and copy the data to your new drive.

Done.

Acronis pls make this easier for noobs like me. The above steps are cooked fixing these will give you the edge over Macrium.

[jeffrobarge]

I just purchased a SABRENT SATA/USB enclosure adapter which is supposed to include this Acronis software for disc cloning. Ultimately, I intend to purchase a 1 or 1TB SSD to replace the original 500GB HDD installed in my ole ASUS X501A laptop. I am hoping that using this software process of cloning the old drive will enable me to simply swap an play the new drive without having to purchase a new OS or anything like that. I've never done this type of thing with a laptop computer and am just a bit concerned that I could inadvertently render my old laptop useless. Thanks for this video upload and to those whose comments support the seeming ease of use of this software....

[RightToSelfDefense]

I just used the latest version of Acronis True Image software to clone an
internal laptop hd to a new external ssd in a USB enclosure.
It took 2 hours and 37 minutes to do the actual cloning.

I chose the option to automatically clone the old drive to the new SSD
with the Proportional Partitioning.

Put the new SSD in the laptop and it boot just fine and
ran all the necessary applications.

This Acronis is worth every penny.

[redsix]

Love Acronis...great features and a hell of a lot better than losing your data .. nothing like having a corrupted MFT w/out a backup....say goodby to your boot...fun times

[mirekturecek]

I used Acronis True Image 2013 for years and it works OK. Didn't try it on Windows 10 yet. After cloning is very important to shut down computer, unplug the original HD and boot from the clone. It could be checked in box during cloning, so after operation is done, it will shut down automatically. Great program.

[mihail_nikolaevich]

That works fine about 10 years ago. Now it become slow and doesnt clone properly - skip 1 partition every time when i try different methods of clonning

[stedmangilday]

If you disengage all the non boot disk drives bar the one you wish to clone to make so much easier to do, Once to have reboot with new copy, you can reengage all those drives, Just remove power for non booting drives

[lloydchristmas]

I have Acronis 2018. Nice software. Thanks for the video.

[bustermorley]

Discovered that WD offers Acronis to its users. I am about to try it out and move my OS to a new disk.

[flaps]

I made the idiotic mistake of not watching this video before cloning my laptop hdd. I left the source drive in the computer and ran the cloning process to the target via a sabrent enclosure. So far so good though. It's currently on the processing stages through the bootable kernel it automatically started. It's just taking absolutely forever. Fingers crossed this works though.

[FlyboyHelosim]

I'm pretty sure I've booted from an external hard drive before, well it was an internal one attached externally via SATA to USB adapter.

[jasonmitchell]

Do I first need to download the Acronis software to the source disc. Dont know much about messing around in BIOS. Is there any TRUE step by step (start to finish) tutorial out there for us BIOS/computer impared?

[AlexSage]

The application is super lame!!! I tried to clone my primary drive, and the app keeps loading and loading taking much time, half a day passed, still trying to clone one ssd, no luck yet. app is keep loading or buffering. I probably could've clone a disk with a little free app from the web, by now. That annoying blue buffer clock stays on top of the app, and not letting me go back, or change my mind. every time that buffer clock comes out you should notify a user Please wait for half hour! or program your app so that it bypasses waiting of the user! don't make the end user WAIT for the unknown! and then give another options to set and wait another half hour, etc.. WTF!!!!

[GalacticAstroparticles]

1. Tried to clone HDD to new SSD using the software with the SSD connected externally (via SATA-USB3). At some point I get a black screen for hours and nothing was happening.
2. Tried to find and Disable any 'Multiple Monitors' setting/option in BIOS but found none.
3. Cleaned/wiped the SSD just to be safe and tried performing the procedure after installing the SSD in the laptop and connecting the HDD externally via SATA-USB3. Unable to boot, went into automatic repair etc.


Seems like the only safe way to do this is actually detach BOTH drives and connect them to a 2nd PC (with multiple SATA connections available) and clone the HDD to the SSD from a different (3rd) disk...

[thecman]

I am having such a fun time attempting this! Just got a new M.2 nvme drive and it keeps wanting to restart, when it boots up nothing happens... Not very easy-to-use I would say!

[lf]

I cloned from a hdd to a sdd containing windows 10 by backup/recover in a file, on an HP laptop. I had some issues to boot with acronis true image 2016, could not boot, winload.exe not found.
I did same operation with acronis true image 2014 and it worked fine. Hope it will help some people.

[goofstrike]

Thank you for watching, to see more.. xD

[stellijer]

A couple questions:

Is it truly important to clone to the drive in place inside the laptop? I see others saying to clone to the drive in an enclosure

How do we make a bootable USB? No cd on my laptop.

How do you make the target partition larger if cloning to a larger drive?