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I’ve been using Acronis True Image for many years, and it has worked amazingly well for many situations…īUT I have encountered a major issue with Acronis, and from this article it seems like Macrium might have solved that issue I’ve had with Acronis?! If so that would be awesome.Įssentially, whenever I tell told Acronis to copy a SOURCE windows disk, into a LARGER partition space on the DESTINATION DISK (if the destination disk was larger), it would never work properly, and windows would crash!
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However, it might be possible to boot into “safe mode” and install those drivers.Īn alternative to cloning is to virtualize Computer A’s OS drive and then run it as VM (virtual machine) under a hypervisor, such as VirtualBox, VMware Player, Workstation or Fusion, Microsoft Hyper-V, Parallels or others.
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I tend to doubt it, as it is likely there would be different hardware drivers needed on Computer B. Perhaps a cloned Linux drive would work as you suggest.
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What you ask might work with a Mac OS X boot drive, since OS X is generally agnostic to the computer hardware as long as its Apple. Changing motherboards always triggers an activation call. Unless Computer B is hardware-identical to Computer A (and maybe not even then) what you are suggesting won’t work, because the Windows Activation service looks for significant hardware changes to see whether the OS is activated or not. The simple answer to your question is, “Not if you are using Windows!” A newly cloned Windows OS drive must be the boot drive of the machine it was cloned from. But for simple one off images I find it works perfectly – especially as I separate OS from Software from Personal Data. I wouldn’t say clonezilla is uber user friendly, and you can’t exactly open the image and retrieve individual files (you can but its done via a virtual image and you have to allot the same drive space as the original drive!). If D drive dies, I replace it, and copy back from my externals etc.
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If C drive dies, or I replace it – I just clonezilla back from the image on d to c (and maybe have to update flash)
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All personal data and portable software etc is also backed up. I use Clonezilla to clone c drive to an image on d drive. All personal data and 400+ portable programs are stored on other drives. I do windows updates 6 monthly – and I take a new clone image each time. What I do is my boot c drive contains the OS and about 5 programs installed (Office, PS, Skyrim) (and some other minor stuff like flash, f.lux).