Acronis True Image 2015 - User Guide - Manual (Page 96)

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7 Disk cloning and migration
This operation copies the entire contents of one disk drive to another disk drive. This may be
necessary, for example, when you want to clone your operating system, applications, and data to a
new, larger capacity disk. You can do it two ways:
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Use the Clone disk utility (p. 96).
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Back up your old disk drive, and then recover it to the new one (p. 65).
In this section
Disk cloning utility .................................................................................... 96
Migrating your system from an HDD to an SSD ..................................... 101
7.1 Disk cloning utility
The Clone disk utility allows you to clone your hard disk drive by copying the partitions to another
hard disk.
Please read before you start:
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When you want to clone your system to a higher-capacity hard disk, we recommend that you
install the target (new) drive where you plan to use it and the source drive in another location,
e.g. in an external USB enclosure. This is especially important for laptops.
Warning! Your old and new hard drives must work in the same controller mode (for example, IDE or
AHCI). Otherwise, your computer will not start from the new hard drive.
Warning! If you clone a disk with Windows to an external USB hard drive, you will not be able to boot
from it. Windows does not support booting from external USB hard drives. Please clone to internal SSD or
HDD instead.
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On program screens, damaged partitions are marked with a red circle and a white cross inside in
the upper left corner. Before you start cloning, you should check such disks for errors and correct
the errors using the appropriate operating system tools.
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We strongly recommend that you create a backup of the entire original disk as a safety
precaution. It could be your data saver if something goes wrong with your original hard disk
during cloning. For information on how to create such a backup see Backing up partitions and
disks. After creating the backup, make sure that you validate it.
7.1.1 Clone Disk wizard
Before you start, we recommend that you read general information about Disk cloning utility (p. 96).
To clone a disk:
1. On the sidebar, click Tools, and then click Clone disk.
2. On the Clone Mode step, choose a transfer mode.
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Automatic—Recommended in most cases.
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Manual—Manual mode will provide more data transfer flexibility. Manual mode can be
useful if you need to change the disk partition layout.