On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:34:43 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch"
wrote:

On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:18:13 -0400, wrote:

On 16 Oct 2009 00:09:46 GMT, ray wrote:

On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:11:23 -0400, rmo555 wrote:

I want to use Acronis to clone my disk (laptop). How do I choose a disk
and plug it in to my laptop (which only has one disk drive and no extra
bays)?

Sorry - I forgot to cross post......

Don't quite follow what you're up to. Do you absolutely want to add a
drive or are you interested in replacing one or are you simply looking at
backups?

If not replace, then two possibilities spring to mind: external drive
(USB or firewire) or network.

I find it very comforting to have a backup drive 'just in case.' Of
course, I backup my entire drive (and network drives) almost daily.
However, the files and data on my primary disk are irreplaceable. With
a weekly or so backup disk drive and my (almost) daily backups, I'll
never (hopefully) have to worry about losing my info. I even backup my
drives to two independent backup external drives. I'm anal about
backing up.

s/anal/prudent/ :-)

That is Unix slang for "no, you're not anal, you're prudent"...

Thanks - I feel a whole lot better!!!!!!!

On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:11:23 -0400, wrote:

I want to use Acronis to clone my disk (laptop). How do I choose a
disk and plug it in to my laptop (which only has one disk drive and no
extra bays)?

Sorry - I forgot to cross post......

Thanks to all for the help. I didn't know such enclosures were
available.

On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:03:04 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:11:23 -0400, wrote:

I want to use Acronis to clone my disk (laptop). How do I choose a
disk and plug it in to my laptop (which only has one disk drive and no
extra bays)?

Sorry - I forgot to cross post......

Thanks to all for the help. I didn't know such enclosures were
available.

If I clone a drive with more than one partition on it, will the other
partitions be cloned automatically?

On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:33:36 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:03:04 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:11:23 -0400, wrote:

I want to use Acronis to clone my disk (laptop). How do I choose a
disk and plug it in to my laptop (which only has one disk drive and no
extra bays)?

Sorry - I forgot to cross post......

Thanks to all for the help. I didn't know such enclosures were
available.

If I clone a drive with more than one partition on it, will the other
partitions be cloned automatically?

Depends on the software and on your choices when running it.

I think the free program EASEUS Disk Copy gives those options, but I
haven't used it in a while, so I don't fully trust my memory :-)

I'm pretty sure Acronis gives those options, but I only use the
single-partition option.

--
Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom

Yes. Acronis gives you the option to select the entire disk or specific
partitions.

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On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:03:04 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:11:23 -0400, wrote:

I want to use Acronis to clone my disk (laptop). How do I choose a
disk and plug it in to my laptop (which only has one disk drive and no
extra bays)?

Sorry - I forgot to cross post......

Thanks to all for the help. I didn't know such enclosures were
available.

If I clone a drive with more than one partition on it, will the other
partitions be cloned automatically?

Yeah - I just started an Acronis job five minutes ago, so I looked :-)

Thanks for confirming my earlier guess/half memory.


On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:03:52 -0400, rak wrote:

Yes. Acronis gives you the option to select the entire disk or specific
partitions.

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On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:03:04 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:11:23 -0400, wrote:

I want to use Acronis to clone my disk (laptop). How do I choose a
disk and plug it in to my laptop (which only has one disk drive and no
extra bays)?

Sorry - I forgot to cross post......

Thanks to all for the help. I didn't know such enclosures were
available.

If I clone a drive with more than one partition on it, will the other
partitions be cloned automatically?


--
Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom

On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:03:52 -0400, "rak" wrote:

Yes. Acronis gives you the option to select the entire disk or specific
partitions.

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On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:03:04 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:11:23 -0400, wrote:

I want to use Acronis to clone my disk (laptop). How do I choose a
disk and plug it in to my laptop (which only has one disk drive and no
extra bays)?

Sorry - I forgot to cross post......

Thanks to all for the help. I didn't know such enclosures were
available.

If I clone a drive with more than one partition on it, will the other
partitions be cloned automatically?

Thanks - I want to clone the entire disk (including ALL partitions).

Thanks for the info......

On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:29:40 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch"
wrote:

On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:56:46 -0500, whs wrote:

Those are the kind of enclosures that Gene is talking about: ( 'hdd
enclosure - Search at Office Depot'
(http://www.officedepot.com/catalog/s...=hdd+enclosure)
).

Actually I was more thinking about these:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...e+sata+adapter

Or for ease of use, the TinyURL version of the above:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/yktu4g4

But both are good, and your suggestion might make the OP feel more secure,
with the drive protected inside an enclosure.

To the OP - be sure that you choose an enclosure or cable that will accept
your drive. Most of the cables accept both 2.5" and 3.5" drives of both
persuasions, IDE/PATA and SATA. Many enclosures accept both IDE/PATA and
SATA too, but many accept only one type, and AFAIK all enclosures accept
only one drive size.

And just to roil the waters a bit more, here's an example of a dock:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...dock&x=20&y=28

Or in TinyURL form, http://preview.tinyurl.com/yhsh74u

The docks I've seen all take only SATA, but they all take either 2.5" or
3.5" drives.