Cloning a Hard Drive

[Prescott]

I have a 320GB Western Digital Caviar Black hard drive that I would like
to clone to a 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black hard drive. I downloaded
the Acronis disk management software from the Western Digital Website
and started trying to clone the drive. The Acronis Disk Management
software showed the 143MB partition after the Windows 7 boot partition
on the from drive, as Unallocated space, and it was clear that it was
not going to copy it.

I went back to the Western Digital Website to get the Acronis user
manual, and the Acronis disk management software is only for Windows
2000, XP, and Vista. It is not listed as being for Windows 7, and not
surprisingly, it apparently does not know how to clone a Windows 7 drive.

Does anyone out there know a procedure for copying the boot partition,
and then using the install disk to recreate the boot manager? Or does
anyone know of any free download that can clone a Windows 7 boot
partition and end up with a bootable clone?

Thanks

 

[Thip]

"Prescott" <Prescott@bogus.com> wrote in message
news:huehg9$onb$1@news.eternal-september.org...
> Does anyone out there know a procedure for copying the boot partition, and
> then using the install disk to recreate the boot manager? Or does anyone
> know of any free download that can clone a Windows 7 boot partition and
> end up with a bootable clone?
>
> Thanks

I've had mostly--but not perfect--luck with Macrium Reflect (free).

http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp

 

[Roy Smith]

On 6/5/2010 5:01 PM, Prescott wrote:
> I have a 320GB Western Digital Caviar Black hard drive that I would like
> to clone to a 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black hard drive. I downloaded
> the Acronis disk management software from the Western Digital Website
> and started trying to clone the drive. The Acronis Disk Management
> software showed the 143MB partition after the Windows 7 boot partition
> on the from drive, as Unallocated space, and it was clear that it was
> not going to copy it.
>
> I went back to the Western Digital Website to get the Acronis user
> manual, and the Acronis disk management software is only for Windows
> 2000, XP, and Vista. It is not listed as being for Windows 7, and not
> surprisingly, it apparently does not know how to clone a Windows 7 drive.
>
> Does anyone out there know a procedure for copying the boot partition,
> and then using the install disk to recreate the boot manager? Or does
> anyone know of any free download that can clone a Windows 7 boot
> partition and end up with a bootable clone?

Go to the Acronis website (www.acronis.com) and download the fully
functional demo to clone your drive. Just make sure you get the latest
edition which is Win 7 compatible (Acronis True Image Home 2010).

--

Roy Smith
Windows 7 Professional

Timestamp: Saturday, June 05, 2010 5:21:51 PM

 

[Parko]

On Sat, 05 Jun 2010 18:01:52 -0400, Prescott sgraffire:

> I have a 320GB Western Digital Caviar Black hard drive that I would like
> to clone to a 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black hard drive. I downloaded
> the Acronis disk management software from the Western Digital Website
> and started trying to clone the drive. The Acronis Disk Management
> software showed the 143MB partition after the Windows 7 boot partition
> on the from drive, as Unallocated space, and it was clear that it was
> not going to copy it.
>
> I went back to the Western Digital Website to get the Acronis user
> manual, and the Acronis disk management software is only for Windows
> 2000, XP, and Vista. It is not listed as being for Windows 7, and not
> surprisingly, it apparently does not know how to clone a Windows 7
> drive.
>
> Does anyone out there know a procedure for copying the boot partition,
> and then using the install disk to recreate the boot manager? Or does
> anyone know of any free download that can clone a Windows 7 boot
> partition and end up with a bootable clone?
>
> Thanks

I've had no trouble with Acronis WD Edition, however, try Clonezilla.
http://clonezilla.org/



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And bought a computer
Set it up in the home
Elusive big one

 

[gumby patrol]

On 05/06/2010 3:01 PM, Prescott wrote:
> I have a 320GB Western Digital Caviar Black hard drive that I would like
> to clone to a 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black hard drive. I downloaded
> the Acronis disk management software from the Western Digital Website
> and started trying to clone the drive. The Acronis Disk Management
> software showed the 143MB partition after the Windows 7 boot partition
> on the from drive, as Unallocated space, and it was clear that it was
> not going to copy it.

Use the software to create an Acronis boot disk and use that to clone
the HDD. I own a few copies of Acronis and never install the Windfows
software, just use the boot disk and it will have no problems becuase it
just does a blind read. It's when you use the Windows software that you
will get possible compat issues and soemtimes bad clones.

BTW, Win7 has its own imaging software built in so you don't even need
Acronis Windows software to do what you want, it will also make a rescue
cdrom to restore the image without Windows installed. I've never used it
but know the software is already there for you to use.

 

[Canuck57]

On 05/06/2010 5:26 PM, gumby patrol wrote:
> On 05/06/2010 3:01 PM, Prescott wrote:
>> I have a 320GB Western Digital Caviar Black hard drive that I would like
>> to clone to a 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black hard drive. I downloaded
>> the Acronis disk management software from the Western Digital Website
>> and started trying to clone the drive. The Acronis Disk Management
>> software showed the 143MB partition after the Windows 7 boot partition
>> on the from drive, as Unallocated space, and it was clear that it was
>> not going to copy it.
>
> Use the software to create an Acronis boot disk and use that to clone
> the HDD. I own a few copies of Acronis and never install the Windfows
> software, just use the boot disk and it will have no problems becuase it
> just does a blind read. It's when you use the Windows software that you
> will get possible compat issues and soemtimes bad clones.
>
> BTW, Win7 has its own imaging software built in so you don't even need
> Acronis Windows software to do what you want, it will also make a rescue
> cdrom to restore the image without Windows installed. I've never used it
> but know the software is already there for you to use.

Does it work? I ask this as I haven't seen a native home MS-Windows PC
ever recover using MS-Windows native tools. The only ones that seam to
work are vendor added recovery tools.

 

[Simon Jones]

In article <huehg9$onb$1@news.eternal-september.org>, Prescott@bogus.com
says...
>
> I have a 320GB Western Digital Caviar Black hard drive that I would like
> to clone to a 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black hard drive. I downloaded
> the Acronis disk management software from the Western Digital Website
> and started trying to clone the drive. The Acronis Disk Management
> software showed the 143MB partition after the Windows 7 boot partition
> on the from drive, as Unallocated space, and it was clear that it was
> not going to copy it.
>
> I went back to the Western Digital Website to get the Acronis user
> manual, and the Acronis disk management software is only for Windows
> 2000, XP, and Vista. It is not listed as being for Windows 7, and not
> surprisingly, it apparently does not know how to clone a Windows 7 drive.
>
> Does anyone out there know a procedure for copying the boot partition,
> and then using the install disk to recreate the boot manager? Or does
> anyone know of any free download that can clone a Windows 7 boot
> partition and end up with a bootable clone?
>
> Thanks


Partition Manager (Symantec) has a bootable CD which clones drives. I
haven't tried it for Win7 yet but I am guessing the filesystem is the
same as XP so it should work fine. It runs in DOS but does a good job of
the actual cloning.
--
A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying?

 

[LSMFT]

Prescott wrote:
> I have a 320GB Western Digital Caviar Black hard drive that I would like
> to clone to a 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black hard drive. I downloaded
> the Acronis disk management software from the Western Digital Website
> and started trying to clone the drive. The Acronis Disk Management
> software showed the 143MB partition after the Windows 7 boot partition
> on the from drive, as Unallocated space, and it was clear that it was
> not going to copy it.
>
> I went back to the Western Digital Website to get the Acronis user
> manual, and the Acronis disk management software is only for Windows
> 2000, XP, and Vista. It is not listed as being for Windows 7, and not
> surprisingly, it apparently does not know how to clone a Windows 7 drive.
>
> Does anyone out there know a procedure for copying the boot partition,
> and then using the install disk to recreate the boot manager? Or does
> anyone know of any free download that can clone a Windows 7 boot
> partition and end up with a bootable clone?
>
> Thanks

I use Clonezilla which is free, with no problems. You can't be using the
drive you are cloning you know. That's why a cloning program like
Clonezilla has a boot CD to operate the clone operation.

--
LSMFT

I haven't spoken to my wife in 18 months.
I don't like to interrupt her.

 

[Char Jackson]

On Sat, 05 Jun 2010 18:01:52 -0400, Prescott <Prescott@bogus.com>
wrote:

>I have a 320GB Western Digital Caviar Black hard drive that I would like
>to clone to a 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black hard drive. I downloaded
>the Acronis disk management software from the Western Digital Website
>and started trying to clone the drive. The Acronis Disk Management
>software showed the 143MB partition after the Windows 7 boot partition
>on the from drive, as Unallocated space, and it was clear that it was
>not going to copy it.

It sounds like you were accidentally trying to copy partitions instead
of entire disks. When you get into the disk clone mode, you won't see
or worry about partitions. You're just dealing with entire drives at
that point. Whatever is on the source disk will be recreated on the
destination disk. Note that if you're trying to clone the boot disk,
Acronis will require you to reboot so that the OS is unloaded.

 

[Bob Hatch]

On 6/5/2010 3:01 PM, Prescott wrote:
> I have a 320GB Western Digital Caviar Black hard drive that I would like
> to clone to a 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black hard drive. I downloaded
> the Acronis disk management software from the Western Digital Website
> and started trying to clone the drive. The Acronis Disk Management
> software showed the 143MB partition after the Windows 7 boot partition
> on the from drive, as Unallocated space, and it was clear that it was
> not going to copy it.
>
> I went back to the Western Digital Website to get the Acronis user
> manual, and the Acronis disk management software is only for Windows
> 2000, XP, and Vista. It is not listed as being for Windows 7, and not
> surprisingly, it apparently does not know how to clone a Windows 7 drive.
>
> Does anyone out there know a procedure for copying the boot partition,
> and then using the install disk to recreate the boot manager? Or does
> anyone know of any free download that can clone a Windows 7 boot
> partition and end up with a bootable clone?
>
> Thanks

CopyWipe.

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/copywipe.php

Download the CopyWipe for DOS, make a boot disk and work from that.

It's free and I've used it with Win 7.

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http://www.bobhatch.com
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[Doum]

Canuck57 <Canuck57@nospam.com> écrivait
news:ihBOn.43097$h57.10438@newsfe22.iad:

> On 05/06/2010 5:26 PM, gumby patrol wrote:
>> On 05/06/2010 3:01 PM, Prescott wrote:
>>> I have a 320GB Western Digital Caviar Black hard drive that I would
>>> like to clone to a 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black hard drive. I
>>> downloaded the Acronis disk management software from the Western
>>> Digital Website and started trying to clone the drive. The Acronis
>>> Disk Management software showed the 143MB partition after the
>>> Windows 7 boot partition on the from drive, as Unallocated space,
>>> and it was clear that it was not going to copy it.
>>
>> Use the software to create an Acronis boot disk and use that to clone
>> the HDD. I own a few copies of Acronis and never install the Windfows
>> software, just use the boot disk and it will have no problems becuase
>> it just does a blind read. It's when you use the Windows software
>> that you will get possible compat issues and soemtimes bad clones.
>>
>> BTW, Win7 has its own imaging software built in so you don't even
>> need Acronis Windows software to do what you want, it will also make
>> a rescue cdrom to restore the image without Windows installed. I've
>> never used it but know the software is already there for you to use.
>
> Does it work? I ask this as I haven't seen a native home MS-Windows
> PC ever recover using MS-Windows native tools. The only ones that
> seam to work are vendor added recovery tools.
>

Yes

 

[Prescott]

I went to www.acronis.com and downloaded the single workstation version
of Acronis 10, and tried to install it, but it wanted to install for a
particular user, not for the machine, and for that user it refused to
install unless I put a password on the account. If something else
doesn't work, I may do that, but for now, I'd rather try something else
than have Acronis tell me how to manage my accounts.


Roy Smith wrote:
> On 6/5/2010 5:01 PM, Prescott wrote:
>> I have a 320GB Western Digital Caviar Black hard drive that I would like
>> to clone to a 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black hard drive. I downloaded
>> the Acronis disk management software from the Western Digital Website
>> and started trying to clone the drive. The Acronis Disk Management
>> software showed the 143MB partition after the Windows 7 boot partition
>> on the from drive, as Unallocated space, and it was clear that it was
>> not going to copy it.
>>
>> I went back to the Western Digital Website to get the Acronis user
>> manual, and the Acronis disk management software is only for Windows
>> 2000, XP, and Vista. It is not listed as being for Windows 7, and not
>> surprisingly, it apparently does not know how to clone a Windows 7 drive.
>>
>> Does anyone out there know a procedure for copying the boot partition,
>> and then using the install disk to recreate the boot manager? Or does
>> anyone know of any free download that can clone a Windows 7 boot
>> partition and end up with a bootable clone?
>
> Go to the Acronis website (www.acronis.com) and download the fully
> functional demo to clone your drive. Just make sure you get the latest
> edition which is Win 7 compatible (Acronis True Image Home 2010).
>

 

[Prescott]

I downloaded Clonezilla, and it is running now on my Windows 7 machine.
When it is finished, I'll see if it will boot.

Parko wrote:
> On Sat, 05 Jun 2010 18:01:52 -0400, Prescott sgraffire:
>
>> I have a 320GB Western Digital Caviar Black hard drive that I would like
>> to clone to a 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black hard drive. I downloaded
>> the Acronis disk management software from the Western Digital Website
>> and started trying to clone the drive. The Acronis Disk Management
>> software showed the 143MB partition after the Windows 7 boot partition
>> on the from drive, as Unallocated space, and it was clear that it was
>> not going to copy it.
>>
>> I went back to the Western Digital Website to get the Acronis user
>> manual, and the Acronis disk management software is only for Windows
>> 2000, XP, and Vista. It is not listed as being for Windows 7, and not
>> surprisingly, it apparently does not know how to clone a Windows 7
>> drive.
>>
>> Does anyone out there know a procedure for copying the boot partition,
>> and then using the install disk to recreate the boot manager? Or does
>> anyone know of any free download that can clone a Windows 7 boot
>> partition and end up with a bootable clone?
>>
>> Thanks
>
> I've had no trouble with Acronis WD Edition, however, try Clonezilla.
> http://clonezilla.org/
>
>
>

 

[Prescott]

Canuck57 wrote:
> On 05/06/2010 5:26 PM, gumby patrol wrote:
>> On 05/06/2010 3:01 PM, Prescott wrote:
>>> I have a 320GB Western Digital Caviar Black hard drive that I would like
>>> to clone to a 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black hard drive. I downloaded
>>> the Acronis disk management software from the Western Digital Website
>>> and started trying to clone the drive. The Acronis Disk Management
>>> software showed the 143MB partition after the Windows 7 boot partition
>>> on the from drive, as Unallocated space, and it was clear that it was
>>> not going to copy it.
>>
>> Use the software to create an Acronis boot disk and use that to clone
>> the HDD. I own a few copies of Acronis and never install the Windfows
>> software, just use the boot disk and it will have no problems becuase it
>> just does a blind read. It's when you use the Windows software that you
>> will get possible compat issues and soemtimes bad clones.
>>
>> BTW, Win7 has its own imaging software built in so you don't even need
>> Acronis Windows software to do what you want, it will also make a rescue
>> cdrom to restore the image without Windows installed. I've never used it
>> but know the software is already there for you to use.
>
> Does it work? I ask this as I haven't seen a native home MS-Windows PC
> ever recover using MS-Windows native tools. The only ones that seam to
> work are vendor added recovery tools.

I couldn't find the CD with Acronis True Image WD Edition that I burned
before, so I burned another CD and booted from it. It still doesn't
know what to do with the 143.5 MB area that Windows 7 creates when it is
installed.

 

[Prescott]

Parko wrote:
> On Sat, 05 Jun 2010 18:01:52 -0400, Prescott sgraffire:
>
>> I have a 320GB Western Digital Caviar Black hard drive that I would like
>> to clone to a 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black hard drive. I downloaded
>> the Acronis disk management software from the Western Digital Website
>> and started trying to clone the drive. The Acronis Disk Management
>> software showed the 143MB partition after the Windows 7 boot partition
>> on the from drive, as Unallocated space, and it was clear that it was
>> not going to copy it.
>>
>> I went back to the Western Digital Website to get the Acronis user
>> manual, and the Acronis disk management software is only for Windows
>> 2000, XP, and Vista. It is not listed as being for Windows 7, and not
>> surprisingly, it apparently does not know how to clone a Windows 7
>> drive.
>>
>> Does anyone out there know a procedure for copying the boot partition,
>> and then using the install disk to recreate the boot manager? Or does
>> anyone know of any free download that can clone a Windows 7 boot
>> partition and end up with a bootable clone?
>>
>> Thanks
>
> I've had no trouble with Acronis WD Edition, however, try Clonezilla.
> http://clonezilla.org/
>
>
>

Okay, clonezilla has succeeded for the most part.

My Windows 7 computer has booted to, and is now running on the 1TB
drive. I'll wait a few days to make sure that there aren't any glitches
before I scrub the 320 GB Windows 7 drive and clone the 76GB WD Raptor
Windows XP drive to it, but so far it looks good.

Acronis WD edition would have scaled the partitions, but clonezilla has
copied them across the same size so that now Windows 7 Disk Manager
shows 633 GB of unpartitioned space, but that's not a problem. I can
work with that.

Thanks Parko and thanks everybody else.

 

[Doum]

Prescott <Prescott@bogus.com> écrivait
news:huh34f$64b$1@news.eternal-september.org:

<snip>
>
> Acronis WD edition would have scaled the partitions,

<snip>

But the scaled partitions are just suggestions from ATI, they can be
resized to your liking before proceeding with the cloning.

 

[Canuck57]

On 06/06/2010 2:46 PM, Prescott wrote:
> Canuck57 wrote:
>> On 05/06/2010 5:26 PM, gumby patrol wrote:
>>> On 05/06/2010 3:01 PM, Prescott wrote:
>>>> I have a 320GB Western Digital Caviar Black hard drive that I would
>>>> like
>>>> to clone to a 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black hard drive. I downloaded
>>>> the Acronis disk management software from the Western Digital Website
>>>> and started trying to clone the drive. The Acronis Disk Management
>>>> software showed the 143MB partition after the Windows 7 boot partition
>>>> on the from drive, as Unallocated space, and it was clear that it was
>>>> not going to copy it.
>>>
>>> Use the software to create an Acronis boot disk and use that to clone
>>> the HDD. I own a few copies of Acronis and never install the Windfows
>>> software, just use the boot disk and it will have no problems becuase it
>>> just does a blind read. It's when you use the Windows software that you
>>> will get possible compat issues and soemtimes bad clones.
>>>
>>> BTW, Win7 has its own imaging software built in so you don't even need
>>> Acronis Windows software to do what you want, it will also make a rescue
>>> cdrom to restore the image without Windows installed. I've never used it
>>> but know the software is already there for you to use.
>>
>> Does it work? I ask this as I haven't seen a native home MS-Windows PC
>> ever recover using MS-Windows native tools. The only ones that seam to
>> work are vendor added recovery tools.
>
> I couldn't find the CD with Acronis True Image WD Edition that I burned
> before, so I burned another CD and booted from it. It still doesn't know
> what to do with the 143.5 MB area that Windows 7 creates when it is
> installed.

My comment was aimed at the OS, never have used Acronis so I don't know
it. But MS Windows OS utilities supplied by Microsoft, can't say I have
heard people having a success rate with them.

--
Liberalism - a disease of envy, greed, entitlement and KAOS.

 

[Frank]

On 6/6/2010 79 PM, Canuck57 wrote:
> On 06/06/2010 2:46 PM, Prescott wrote:
>> Canuck57 wrote:
>>> On 05/06/2010 5:26 PM, gumby patrol wrote:
>>>> On 05/06/2010 3:01 PM, Prescott wrote:
>>>>> I have a 320GB Western Digital Caviar Black hard drive that I would
>>>>> like
>>>>> to clone to a 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black hard drive. I
>>>>> downloaded
>>>>> the Acronis disk management software from the Western Digital Website
>>>>> and started trying to clone the drive. The Acronis Disk Management
>>>>> software showed the 143MB partition after the Windows 7 boot partition
>>>>> on the from drive, as Unallocated space, and it was clear that it was
>>>>> not going to copy it.
>>>>
>>>> Use the software to create an Acronis boot disk and use that to clone
>>>> the HDD. I own a few copies of Acronis and never install the Windfows
>>>> software, just use the boot disk and it will have no problems
>>>> becuase it
>>>> just does a blind read. It's when you use the Windows software that you
>>>> will get possible compat issues and soemtimes bad clones.
>>>>
>>>> BTW, Win7 has its own imaging software built in so you don't even need
>>>> Acronis Windows software to do what you want, it will also make a
>>>> rescue
>>>> cdrom to restore the image without Windows installed. I've never
>>>> used it
>>>> but know the software is already there for you to use.
>>>
>>> Does it work? I ask this as I haven't seen a native home MS-Windows PC
>>> ever recover using MS-Windows native tools. The only ones that seam to
>>> work are vendor added recovery tools.
>>
>> I couldn't find the CD with Acronis True Image WD Edition that I burned
>> before, so I burned another CD and booted from it. It still doesn't know
>> what to do with the 143.5 MB area that Windows 7 creates when it is
>> installed.
>
> My comment was aimed at the OS, never have used Acronis so I don't know
> it. But MS Windows OS utilities supplied by Microsoft, can't say I have
> heard people having a success rate with them.
>

And you never got past XP did you, other than your wife's laptop with
Vista Home Premium.
So you have no real basis for an actual opinion, other than expressing
your outright hatred for all things MS.
Asshole!

 

[Dave-UK]

"Canuck57" <Canuck57@nospam.com> wrote in message news:6_YOn.146591$jt.109432@newsfe04.iad...
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> BTW, Win7 has its own imaging software built in so you don't even need
>>>> Acronis Windows software to do what you want, it will also make a rescue
>>>> cdrom to restore the image without Windows installed. I've never used it
>>>> but know the software is already there for you to use.
>>>
>>> Does it work? I ask this as I haven't seen a native home MS-Windows PC
>>> ever recover using MS-Windows native tools. The only ones that seam to
>>> work are vendor added recovery tools.
>>
>> I couldn't find the CD with Acronis True Image WD Edition that I burned
>> before, so I burned another CD and booted from it. It still doesn't know
>> what to do with the 143.5 MB area that Windows 7 creates when it is
>> installed.
>
> My comment was aimed at the OS, never have used Acronis so I don't know
> it. But MS Windows OS utilities supplied by Microsoft, can't say I have
> heard people having a success rate with them.
>

I don't normally see your posts as I have you kill-filed due to your constant replies
to the other trolls on this newsgroup.
I have used Win7's disk image creation and recovery on several machines
and it works just fine. You don't need to buy any third party software.

 

[Roy Smith]

Well now that you do have your OS on the new drive you can expand the
partition. Just right click on Computer (either on the Desktop or in the
Start Menu) and select Manage. In the Computer Management window click on
Disk Management in the left pane. In the center pane right click on your C:
drive and select Extend Volume... and you can then specify how large you
want the partition to be.

"Prescott" <Prescott@bogus.com> wrote in message
news:huh34f$64b$1@news.eternal-september.org...
> Parko wrote:
>> On Sat, 05 Jun 2010 18:01:52 -0400, Prescott sgraffire:
>>
>>> I have a 320GB Western Digital Caviar Black hard drive that I would like
>>> to clone to a 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black hard drive. I downloaded
>>> the Acronis disk management software from the Western Digital Website
>>> and started trying to clone the drive. The Acronis Disk Management
>>> software showed the 143MB partition after the Windows 7 boot partition
>>> on the from drive, as Unallocated space, and it was clear that it was
>>> not going to copy it.
>>>
>>> I went back to the Western Digital Website to get the Acronis user
>>> manual, and the Acronis disk management software is only for Windows
>>> 2000, XP, and Vista. It is not listed as being for Windows 7, and not
>>> surprisingly, it apparently does not know how to clone a Windows 7
>>> drive.
>>>
>>> Does anyone out there know a procedure for copying the boot partition,
>>> and then using the install disk to recreate the boot manager? Or does
>>> anyone know of any free download that can clone a Windows 7 boot
>>> partition and end up with a bootable clone?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>
>> I've had no trouble with Acronis WD Edition, however, try Clonezilla.
>> http://clonezilla.org/
>>
>>
>>
>
> Okay, clonezilla has succeeded for the most part.
>
> My Windows 7 computer has booted to, and is now running on the 1TB drive.
> I'll wait a few days to make sure that there aren't any glitches before I
> scrub the 320 GB Windows 7 drive and clone the 76GB WD Raptor Windows XP
> drive to it, but so far it looks good.
>
> Acronis WD edition would have scaled the partitions, but clonezilla has
> copied them across the same size so that now Windows 7 Disk Manager shows
> 633 GB of unpartitioned space, but that's not a problem. I can work with
> that.
>
> Thanks Parko and thanks everybody else.

--

Roy Smith
Windows 7 Professional