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1. #Acronis true image how to clone hard drive to ssd drive full#
2. #Acronis true image how to clone hard drive to ssd drive plus#

the Acronis bootable Rescue Media needed for Backup & Restore, and the Acronis bootable Universal Restore Media needed to prepare the restored OS. You will need to create and test both types of bootable media, i.e. Please see post: 128231: CLONING - How NOT to do this!!! as a starting point - these actions shown in the referenced documents need to be performed before attempting to use Acronis Universal Restore. If you are attempting to migrate the RAID drive to a different computer, then this becomes more complicated because you will be restoring the Backup to different hardware and this would normally require the use of the Acronis Universal Restore tool to prepare the restored OS to work with the different hardware in that second computer.

#Acronis true image how to clone hard drive to ssd drive full#

You cannot clone a RAID drive with ATIH 2015 as this is a dynamic drive and not supported, however you should be able to achieve the same result as cloning by doing a full disk & partitions Backup and Recovery - all of this should only be done by using the Acronis bootable Rescue Media, not done from starting inside of Windows. You can reconnect the HDD later after the SSD boots OK. If it is connected anywhere else it will not boot.ĭo not boot Windows with both the SSD and HDD connected after cloning - they will now both be identical and have the same disk signature. The SSD needs to be connected where the HDD was in order to enable it to boot correctly into Windows after the clone has completed. Connect the HDD externally via USB or in a second disk position. It is strongly recommended that you remove the source HDD from your computer and replace it with the target SSD drive before you start the clone. Some warnings here: Please do not attempt to do this from within Windows (even though ATIH will allow you!)Īlways perform cloning using the bootable Acronis Rescue Media on DVD or USB stick - this will also be a good exercise to prove that you can use this media to recover your system should you ever need to do so in the future.

#Acronis true image how to clone hard drive to ssd drive plus#

Please see KB document: 56634: Acronis True Image 2016: Cloning Disks which will take you through all the steps needed to do this, plus has a video tutorial showing the process. Yes, it should be possible to do what you are asking providing that all the data held on the HDD can fit comfortably on the new SSD drive.