Acronis and USB   

I have a Win2K machine with a 20 gb drive that I would like to back up 
to a USB drive, then replace the 20 gb with a 160 gb and restore the 
backkup from USB using Acronis 10.

Is this doable and what should I watch for and what is the procedure for 
doing the restore and reboot?

Thanks

date: Sun, 04 May 2008 13:14:12 -0700   author:   George W. Barrowcliff

Re: Acronis and USB   

Install the 160gb as slave, then use Acronis to clone the old disk to new.
Shutdown when complete, disconect origonal HD, configure 160gb as master & 
reboot.
There may be a few more hoops if your 160gb is a sata drive
If its a Laptop & you have no enclosure to use with the 160gb then do as you 
planed
The Acronis cd is bootable & can be used to recover the backup to the new hd

"George W. Barrowcliff"  wrote in message 
news:eMwatNirIHA.4376@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>I have a Win2K machine with a 20 gb drive that I would like to back up to a 
>USB drive, then replace the 20 gb with a 160 gb and restore the backkup 
>from USB using Acronis 10.
>
> Is this doable and what should I watch for and what is the procedure for 
> doing the restore and reboot?
>
> Thanks

date: Sun, 4 May 2008 23:11:18 +0100   author:   DL address@invalid

Re: Acronis and USB   

Thanks for your quick response.  I mistyped the 160 gb, actually is a 120 
USB drive and the Win2k current installation is on the 20 gb in my laptop.

I was planning on using Acronis to make the 120 usb drive bootable as part 
of the clone process, then simply replacing the 20 with the 120 and 
rebooting.

Does Acronis 10 support that kind of action?

GWB

"DL" <address@invalid> wrote in message 
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> Install the 160gb as slave, then use Acronis to clone the old disk to new.
> Shutdown when complete, disconect origonal HD, configure 160gb as master & 
> reboot.
> There may be a few more hoops if your 160gb is a sata drive
> If its a Laptop & you have no enclosure to use with the 160gb then do as 
> you planed
> The Acronis cd is bootable & can be used to recover the backup to the new 
> hd
>
> "George W. Barrowcliff"  wrote in message 
> news:eMwatNirIHA.4376@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>I have a Win2K machine with a 20 gb drive that I would like to back up to 
>>a USB drive, then replace the 20 gb with a 160 gb and restore the backkup 
>>from USB using Acronis 10.
>>
>> Is this doable and what should I watch for and what is the procedure for 
>> doing the restore and reboot?
>>
>> Thanks
>
>

date: Sun, 4 May 2008 17:28:23 -0700   author:   George W. Barrowcliff

Re: Acronis and USB   

Usually an external drive cannot be made bootable, dont try it.
Clone/copy your C drive to the usb drive
Remove old C drive, replace with new drive, and reboot

"George W. Barrowcliff"  wrote in 
message news:%23e%23zxbkrIHA.4952@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Thanks for your quick response.  I mistyped the 160 gb, actually is a 120 
> USB drive and the Win2k current installation is on the 20 gb in my laptop.
>
> I was planning on using Acronis to make the 120 usb drive bootable as part 
> of the clone process, then simply replacing the 20 with the 120 and 
> rebooting.
>
> Does Acronis 10 support that kind of action?
>
> GWB
>
> "DL" <address@invalid> wrote in message 
> news:eQ7PCOjrIHA.4560@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> Install the 160gb as slave, then use Acronis to clone the old disk to 
>> new.
>> Shutdown when complete, disconect origonal HD, configure 160gb as master 
>> & reboot.
>> There may be a few more hoops if your 160gb is a sata drive
>> If its a Laptop & you have no enclosure to use with the 160gb then do as 
>> you planed
>> The Acronis cd is bootable & can be used to recover the backup to the new 
>> hd
>>
>> "George W. Barrowcliff"  wrote in message 
>> news:eMwatNirIHA.4376@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>>I have a Win2K machine with a 20 gb drive that I would like to back up to 
>>>a USB drive, then replace the 20 gb with a 160 gb and restore the backkup 
>>>from USB using Acronis 10.
>>>
>>> Is this doable and what should I watch for and what is the procedure for 
>>> doing the restore and reboot?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>
>>
>
>

date: Mon, 5 May 2008 09:12:00 +0100   author:   DL address@invalid

Re: Acronis and USB   

Previously, on Usenet "DL" <address@invalid> wrote:

>Usually an external drive cannot be made bootable, dont try it.
>Clone/copy your C drive to the usb drive
>Remove old C drive, replace with new drive, and reboot

That is _very_  important. Do not attempt to start up your system
from the USB while the other drive is still in the laptop. If you do
your new drive will most likely be assigned a drive letter different
from C:, and that is very difficult to do anything about, since it is
the system partition. 

Study Acronis documentation beforehand and follow it carefully.

Lars
Stockholm

date: Mon, 05 May 2008 18:10:00 +0200   author:   Lars