Using ACRONIS to clone C:

[mam]

Hi,If I use ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE to clone my C: drive,to the D: drive,to boot from the the D: drive do I just change the jumpers on the HD's so D: boots first?.

I will be reformatting C: after I know D: boots.

Cheers :D

[matz]

what you would do is when its completed, go into your bios and change the priority of both harddrives swaping them around, if they are the same drives make sure you know which one is which , usually by writing them down.

[system7]

Most of the major hard drive manufacturers provide downloadable utilities with instructions for formatting, partitioning and cloning to a new drive and a wealth of information about jumpers and ribbons.

Seagate, Maxtor and Western digital are particularly good. Some of the software is ACRONIS anyway. :P

Once you've burned the Utility Disk, you usually fit the new IDE in master position and copy the old drive contents in slave position over. Use Cable Select jumpering on both drives, to be modern.

SATA is particularly easy to swap around. You only swap signal wires. Remove the SATA I speed limiting jumper if your motherboard supports SATA II.

[mam]

Hi,Swapping,is that the same as changing the jumpers ,or the position of the the 2 HD's on the IDE cable???.Cheers

[system7]

The Target Black IDE Master position is on the end of the cable. That will normally be your boot device. That is where you fit the new drive.

Source Slave is the second Grey connector.

The utilities don't care which is boot, since they just copy your install over.

Just have a bash. You won't go far wrong. :P

[mam]

thank you all for your help.will give it a ago.Cheers :D :D