I swapped the smaller drive D back in and booted.
I swapped the larger data drive for the smaller, booted and.īut the only thing I changed since my last successful boot is swapping a larger cloned drive for the smaller original data drive.Disk D.
The operation went exactly the same the second time as it did the first time. I plugged the second 1 TB drive into the available SATA channel, booted into Windows, started Acronis, chose to clone disk 2 to disk 3 and performed the clone. I figured I might as well clone my data drive to a larger disk since I was already under the hood, so to speak. The cloning process just worked, and it worked pretty fast.
The PC booted to Windows 7 Professional from the new, cloned drive with no muss and no fuss. I followed the old directions provided by Acronis and it worked like a charm. But today's the day to make the move, clone both old drives to both new drives.Ĭloning the OS drive was easier than I expected. I bought a couple of 1 TB drives from Dell and intended on transferring both my OS and data disks to them, insuring ample space for the foreseeable future. The OS drive continued to accumulate system files and available space shrank to a dangerous minimum. Ultimately my "new" (actually surplus drive I bought at work for $5.00) drive failed and I had to put the old OS drive back in my production PC. Ultimately, it worked, but no thanks to the documentation provided by the fine folks who made Acronis True Image. It was enormously frustrating and job that should have taken an hour or two took days instead. Last August, I posted my adventures of trying to clone my undersized OS drive to a much larger hard drive using Acronis True Image Home 2011. For the most part, it has worked, but I have just one little hiccup that's driving me insane.