WD10EARS clone / align steps

smlunatick · January 5, 2011, 2:45pm

I got a WD10EARS 1TB Green drive. It is an advanced format and I would like to “clone” my older sata drive 0 (also boot drive) to it. I can not install Acronis True Image WD or Acronis WDAlign because I have the full “paid version” of True Image 2011.

What should be the steps to clone my older drive, which is my 2 partition boot disk and contains Windows XP?

freonchill · January 6, 2011, 4:52am

you cna use a freeware linux distro - clonezilla

google it

smlunatick · January 6, 2011, 2:14pm

freonchill wrote:

you cna use a freeware linux distro - clonezilla

google it

Canned response!!!

You did not READ my message. I have the FULL Acronis True Image 2011 so WHY get clonezilla?

I am looking for the correct steps in cloning my boot drive that has 2 Windows XP partition and the Windows 7 BCD boot menu.

How do I use the WDAlign and “which” version???

Zero (0) kudos!!!

rumpel · January 10, 2011, 7:18am

smlunatick wrote:

I got a WD10EARS 1TB Green drive. It is an advanced format and I would like to “clone” my older sata drive 0 (also boot drive) to it. I can not install Acronis True Image WD or Acronis WDAlign because I have the full “paid version” of True Image 2011.

If you have Acronis True Image 2011, why would you need Acronis True Image WD? Isn’t the latter just a “lite” version of the full-blown True Image that will run only if it can see a WD drive in the system?

I don’t understand why the presence of Acronis True Image 2011 would prevent the installation or use of WD Align. Does it? What error message(s) do you get?

smlunatick · January 10, 2011, 5:30pm

I was not attempting to install WD True Image but attempting to set up an “advanced format” drive. I read the WD advanced format page and was concerned about my upcoming clone process of my XP boot 0 drive. Turned out nothing was need to be done as Acronis has also included the “advance format” set up in their FULL product.

rumpel · January 10, 2011, 8:38pm

smlunatick wrote:

… I read the WD advanced format page and was concerned about my upcoming clone process of my XP boot 0 drive. Turned out nothing was need to be done as Acronis has also included the “advance format” set up in their FULL product.

*That’s good to hear – especially given that I’ve just upgraded to Acronis True Image Home 2011, but haven’t installed it yet , and I’ve been trying to figure out what I need to do to set up a 1TB Caviar Green drive in an enclosure for use as an external drive.