Replacing hard drive

[Gerald Ross]

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.

 

[Big_Al]

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.

 

[Lil' Dave]

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.

 

[Gerald Ross]

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.