![]() I would manually copy, then delete myself. I would not "move" the data either for fear of failures. You might need to keep notes, or delete as you go after a successful copy. that's why I would work with smaller chunks. leaving you to either start over, or to try to sort out what you have and don't have. One big copy operation, like the entire My Documents folder, might fail with a fragile drive. With a fragile dying drive, and if Windows and other programs will not be needed, I would manually copy just the desired data, only a little at a time, and rebuild my own copy on USB if there's room, or copy from USB to other hard drive storage if more space is needed. it is only to preserve documents and photos. A big question is, "Do you really need to save WIndows itself?" That is, "Do you want to restore this same exact old Windows at a later date?" Often this is not really the desired goal. it really depends on what you need to preserve. ![]() Sometimes Clonezilla is not the best tool either. A true clone will erase the destination drive. do you mean a true disk-to-disk clone, or do you mean to save a disk image of the old drive to preserve it's contents? I suspect you want to make a backup image of the dying drive so that you can restore from it later. Save early, save often.Click to expand.Do you think the dying drive is healthy enough to sustain an intensive operation like Clonezilla? And just to be clear on your goal here. If you are looking for a fairly straightforward way to create a full backup (files and OS) so that you can recover your machine if/when you have problems, I can attest that this software and USB drive package accomplished that for me. Two notes: it dumped some settings (such as the selected desktop theme) and did not clearly give me a place to name the backup file, but these are minor matters. The image retained drivers I had updated, as it should, so my graphics and NIC were both restored to their as-of states from the image. That process took about 10-15 minutes, which is way faster than re-building the computer from scratch with a fresh Win 7 installation. I rebooted with the CD I'd made and followed the simple steps to restore my machine from the image. System recovery would not work, system repair would not work. One of the 101 updates in the last batch did my computer wrong. Sure enough, one of those was the whammy. I then moved forward with some Windows updates that I think might be the cause of the repeated hard drive /boot failures. I created a bootable recovery CD, as the manual advised, in case the machine became un-bootable. The software loaded and installed on the first attempt, and it allowed me to create a full backup of my machine including OS and files. It is clearly written and easily understood it breaks down the steps needed to create a full system backup so that the layperson can do so easily. The user manual extracted as a PDF file, was easy to navigate, and explains exactly how to use the software. ![]() The ZIP for the Acronis WD software downloaded quickly and extracted cleanly. I purchased a 2TB WD external USB drive the other day and figured I'd give the Acronis WD Edition software a try since I had the machine stable for a while. I have an especially cranky Dell XPS15 running Windows 7 Pro - I've had to re-image the drive several times, and I've grown tired of the lengthy process needed to do so using the 5 or so DVDs that I burned using the W7 Backup & Restore > System Image wizard. This thing's getting a one-way trip to the recycle bin once I hit submit on this review. Only for it to say the uninstall failed because "the subkey cannot be found". By the time I was waiting OVER an hour for it to move on from File Exclusions, I just gave up on it and decided to try EaseUS instead.Īnd the cherry on top: TWICE now when trying to uninstall this garbage, it has managed to CRASH MY F***ING FILE EXPLORER. ![]() So I get up the next day and have to wait a similar close-to-an-hour's worth of time to advance to each following step. I had to go to sleep because it was verging on 3 in the morning, and I was waiting forever for the program just to advance to the next menu option after analyzing the source disk. THAT'S RIGHT! I NEVER EVEN GOT TO THE ACTUAL DISK-CLONING PROCESS! The disk-cloning tool is unimaginably slow. Installs a shit-ton of bloatware onto my system that runs like a dozen processes in the background. Idk how the other tools in the suite work, so I can only speak to my own experience with the disk-cloning feature, but I felt like I was in the twilight zone. I made an account on this website JUST so I could talk about how garbage this program is for disk-cloning. ![]()
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