I have a 500 gig hdd wasting away in my media server. I stream from my other computers so all I need is a 40-80 gig in it. but I could have swore that I seen post here saying that clonind a hdd with vista doesn't work with vista. is this true? what should I use to clone vista?
does cloning a hard drive work in vista?
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I use Acronis True Image. I have several cloned backups of Vista that work flawlessly when restored. I don't use Vista's system restore points as I don't trust them to solve problems. Restoring a recent back up has always kept me out of trouble.:happy:
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What's good about Acronis is can clone a live OS. There's no need boot to a CD to perform a backup. Images can be mounted as a virtual drives so data can be pulled from them as needed.
powerquest drive image 7 does this stuff. I was wondering if it would work with vista. I don't like acronis because acronis have a habit of leaving you with an unbootable system. I've never use acronis to clone a drive though. I used them to partition and created backups and restore backups
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Acronis has data backup mode which isn't intended to preserve low level boot information. It's image(clone) mode does create a restorable backup that will boot. Instead of dual booting I used bounce back and forth between XP and Vista with no problems. Now that I have a stable Vista system the XP images are no longer used.
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