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dale@fcg
04-25-2006, 06:49 PM
This is very similar to what Photolady was attempting to do last few days for GM.

I purchased a version of Easy Migrate 7.0, which sounds like what I'd want to use, but I've never even installed it yet.
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/migrateeasy/


I want to take a client's old 16 gb hd out and put a new 160 gb drive into a WinXP machine (Sony P4 1.7 Ghz , 512 Ram).

I need to do this onsite, so I don't have the advantage of putting it into my bench box.

If Migrate Easy is not the solution, here's plan B:
My plan is to use Acronis 9 to make an image of the original 16 gb drive onto an external usb drive. Next would be to take out eh 16 gb drive and put the 160 into client's tower. Then I would use Acronis 9 to restore the image of the original hd onto the new 160 gb drive.

My understanding is that Acronis would move over the mbr, as well as be able to handle the size adjustment of coming from smaller hd to larger hd.

Am I correct in above plan?
Dan18960
04-25-2006, 08:57 PM
I would opt for plan B.

You are doing 2 things very smart!

(1) NOT touching the original drive - you can always go back that way (and I have done that more than once when things went super wrong).

(2) Using the external drive (or even a second internal drive) to hold the image.
dale@fcg
04-25-2006, 09:02 PM
Dan,
Have you ever tried to use a utility like Migrate Easy?
jcampi
04-26-2006, 08:05 AM
Why not simply use Acronis True Image? Backup your existing PC on the external drive. Then, use the bootable disc to install the image on the new drive. Then, you can use True Image as your backup program.
mylanta
04-26-2006, 09:24 AM
Dale,
I am using Enterprise 9.0 but doesn't 9.0 home have "clone disk"? That would do the same thing as Migrate tool and more and you already have that. Just do exactly what you said with external creating image file or simply use "clone disk" on 9.0 to move everything over to new drive.
Folks watch where you place things I am moving this to hardware!!!!
dale@fcg
04-27-2006, 11:25 PM
Folks watch where you place things I am moving this to hardware!!!!

Rich,
what in the world does that mean? :confused:
mylanta
04-27-2006, 11:54 PM
Dale this thread was in Windows XP and it really should be in Hardware where I moved it to.
dale@fcg
04-28-2006, 08:19 PM
Sorry, Rich. I figgered that this is more relevant to XP. Technically, it's not a problem, per se. I thought the idea was to keep the Hardware "Problem" forum for problems.

I'm assuming, therefore, that the WinXP forum is for OS related questions only?
mylanta
04-28-2006, 09:22 PM
I am beginnning to think we have an overall problem in this forum with the wrod "problem".
dale@fcg
04-28-2006, 11:36 PM
Well, it's not a problem with the wrod problem, it's just what gets defined as a problem- that's all. Many look at the word problem to mean that something is wrong. In my case, migrating to new hard drive is not something wrong. It's a matter of strategy to apply.
mylanta
04-29-2006, 12:21 AM
Well, it's not a problem with the wrod problem, it's just what gets defined as a problem- that's all. Many look at the word problem to mean that something is wrong. In my case, migrating to new hard drive is not something wrong. It's a matter of strategy to apply.

No I mean in the use of the word...I am not sure what "Problem Solving" mean anymore and why we are using those words...hardware problems should be "Hardware" etc....that's what I meant.