General Septem
10-14-2006, 03:03 PM
I recently bought myself a replacement hard drive because my old one was getting very loud. It's real nice, by the way, I can't even hear the thing when I walk in the room anymore. But anyway, someone on another forum suggested I use a program called "Acronis True Image" to clone my old disk so that I wouldn't have to back everything up and reinstall Windows and all that. I was impressed by it so I thought I'd give it a review.
All I had to do was install the new disk, keeping the old one installed. When I booted back up, I opened the program, clicked on "clone disk", followed a few easy instructions, rebooted, and then removed the old drive.
When I booted back up, everything was exactly as I'd left it, only I had twice the space on my boot drive and no longer had to turn the speakers up all the way to hear the music. I didn't have to change anything to get the system running the way it had been - all my settings, my desktop, and everything else was exactly as it was.
This, of course, is to be expected when you clone a drive because all of this is stored on the drive, but the convenience of having a program that does just that is very nice.
Acronis True Image can also be used to partition new drives, backup your data, create a boot disk, and probably has more features I'm unaware of. I don't relaly have much use for all that stuff, but I was very impressed with the "clone drive" feature.
So if you need to replace a drive, especially your primary drive, and don't feel like reinstalling Windows and whatnot, give Acronis True Image a try. 9.5/10 :D
All I had to do was install the new disk, keeping the old one installed. When I booted back up, I opened the program, clicked on "clone disk", followed a few easy instructions, rebooted, and then removed the old drive.
When I booted back up, everything was exactly as I'd left it, only I had twice the space on my boot drive and no longer had to turn the speakers up all the way to hear the music. I didn't have to change anything to get the system running the way it had been - all my settings, my desktop, and everything else was exactly as it was.
This, of course, is to be expected when you clone a drive because all of this is stored on the drive, but the convenience of having a program that does just that is very nice.
Acronis True Image can also be used to partition new drives, backup your data, create a boot disk, and probably has more features I'm unaware of. I don't relaly have much use for all that stuff, but I was very impressed with the "clone drive" feature.
So if you need to replace a drive, especially your primary drive, and don't feel like reinstalling Windows and whatnot, give Acronis True Image a try. 9.5/10 :D