Important: Please make a full disk backup of the source HDD to another external drive before attempting to do the clone operation. the new disk to which you clone, and from which you intend to boot the machine) in a bay, and not physically inside the laptop, the target hard disk will be unbootable after the cloning.
As such, hard disk bays cannot be used for target disks. For example, if you have a target hard disk (i.e. If the new disk is inside the laptop, the boot settings will be automatically adjusted to boot from internal disk. Otherwise you will may not be able to boot from the new cloned drive, as Acronis True Image will apply a bootability fix to the new disk and adjust the boot settings of the target drive to boot from USB. It is recommended to put the new drive in the laptop first, and connect the old drive via USB.
#Acronis true image oem how to#
Note: the first section of the above KB document directs laptop users to KB 2931: How to clone a laptop hard drive - and has the following paragraph: Please see KB 56634: Acronis True Image: how to clone a disk - and review the step by step guide given there. Use the grab handles to drag the right end of the C: partition to use all the unallocated space.įor future reference, please see the following Acronis documents on cloning. Now resize the C: partition by again right-clicking on it and using the Resize option. Move the Recovery partition to the right end of the unallocated space by right-clicking on it, select the Move option, then drag it to the right end so that the unallocated space is now next to the C: partition. Next launch the MPW application and I suspect you will see a Windows Recovey partition sitting between your main C: OS partition and the unallocated space on the new drive. It can back up the operating system, applications, settings and all of your data, while also securely destroying any confidential data you no longer need.
#Acronis true image oem install#
This is fairly easy to fix as follows:ĭownload a copy of the free MiniTool Partition Wizard software and install this. 1.1 What is Acronis® True Image OEM Quick Backup Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup is an integrated software suite that ensures security of all information on your PC.
only using 500GB of the new 1TB drive space. Please see KB 2201: Support for OEM Versions of Acronis Products which applies to all OEM versions of ATI supplied with hardware purchases.Ĭloning a laptop drive should only take around 20-30 minutes unless there are some hardware issues with the source drive, so taking 2 days is excessive by any means.įrom your description, it sounds as if the clone has given you the same partition sizes as from your original smaller drive, i.e. Kenneth, welcome to these public User Forums.