Is the Acronis CD bootable? Can I just boot to the Acronis OS and then have it clone my hard drive to a DVD? (I don't want to have to install Acronis)
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Yes, you can MAKE a bootable CD, but for cloning only, why would you want to? If you only want to clone a hard drive, rather pay for a backup program, you can just get a cloning program. Also, if you ever want to replace one or more files, it is much easier and faster to restore those only from a backup set.
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You will still need to run the setup utility that comes with the CD. It is a very easy process the only took me about 5 minutes. I have had no issues in the three months that I have been using it.
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I believe so. I have cloned many drives to 500gb, 750gb and 1 terabyte drives using acronis software
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I'm sorry that I can't provide an answer for you. I have abandoned Norton Ghost. Although Symantec usually has great products like Norton 360 and Norton Security Suite, I can't say the same for Ghost. I have had nothing but trouble with it and have switched my backup program to Acronis 2013. Acronis is also not the easiest to manage, particularly when a recovery becomes necessary. However, I found it to be better that Ghost even though Acronis is seriously deficient in documentation. Hope this helps.
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Go to their website. They have setups to build your own... this one is already setup. And yes, I believe they are replaceable. But why buy this model to just replace with bigger drives when they already sell 1, bigger drives and 2, setups to build your own...
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i seriously doubt it, unless you can work something out with the seller.ms should make the iso available for free (it's worthless without a coa), because a situation like this one led me to try linux for the first time and i don't plan on ever going back.i suggest linux mint or zorin.doesn't cost a dime.
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Synology supports Time Machine, and you could perform a complete restore using the Recovery HD or USB (Carbon Copy Cloner has a sweet tool that does this), or Install CD. I have never had the need, nor taken the time, to test this. I use Time Machine at work, to a DS713+, for 3 MBP's, an iMac, and a Mini. I personally use Carbon Copy Clone for controlled cloning/restores (cloning direct to HD, and restores from my 411Slim). I use Acronis True Image Home (ATIH) for Windows 7 & 8 to the 411Slim, and have performed a complete restore from the 411Slim, and the ATIH recovery CD, on Windows 7. I also use EASEUS ToDo to a DS213 (I have never had the need to do a full restore, but have a ToDo recovery CD created). I have tested Genie 9 Timeline 2012, which is sort of like Time Machine. It has options for complete disk or data backups, but I only tested the data with versioning. Synology has a tool named Data Replicator that I still need to test.
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No, it did not. I have a backup(image)/restore(disk) to a stand-alone USB hard drive using Acronis true image, very easy and works great.
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Yes. It comes with a 3.5" adapter tray, a suitable screw driver and the Acronis software. I did not personally use the CD, but my guess is you will connect the new drive to the computer (leaving the old one) and boot to the provided CD. From there, you will copy the data from the old drive to the new drive. Once done, you can either remove the old drive or leave it in as a back up. If you leave it in without reformatting, you might run into windows boot loader issues. I opted to just back up my important files and use the new drive install as an opportunity to reinstall the operating system and do everything cleanly from scratch. That way, you get the most benefit out of a new drive, and clean up any old devices, drivers, and programs you no longer need. The USB caddy is awesome too, I use it as a super fast way to transfer lots of files between computers. Depending on your home router, you may even be able to plug it in to and use it as network attached storage.
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If you have a large enough USB jump drive you can make a install from it. Just make the USB drive bootable, i used Diskpart in windows 7. (only diskpart in vista and 7 supports USB devices) Once the USB drive is setup to be bootable just copy all the files from the windows install CD to the root of the USB drive. Reboot computer into bios and edit the boot order for USB device first. if everything worked it should prompt a install just like the windows install CD. Im not going to list the commands for diskpart just google for it. i hope this helps
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Need to install on a back up hard drive, or a partitioned drive off the C: drive. The key is to install from that drive. It does not like being installed just to the C: Drive I have a Toshiba backup drive. I copied all the programs from the D: drive the DVD or CD to the backup drive. Then I installed from that drive. As long as I have that backup dive attached to the USB port, I do not need the DVD/CD to run the game
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no you dont...just use your preexisting disc, or software. if you have the software, you can burn it on a disc or put it in a bootable usb drive.make sure you back up everything on your hard drive, cos the system will delete everything so it can be installed on the hard drive.ive had the problems many times, but for some reason, one day, my hard drive was able to have windows on it...
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I don't know about the particular software that you mention, but I used Acronis to clone the 500 Gb hard drive that came with the notebook computer to clone it (the O.S. and drivers, more specifically) to the my new SanDisk SSD. Once I swapped out the drives in the drive bay, it worked identically. Except for, of course, the fact that the boot time was much faster, as well as my engineering programs that practically doubled in speed. I did use a desktop computer with 3 SATA drives, the first with the O.S. to boot to that had Acronis loaded, and the next two, the 500 Gb HDD and the 256 Gb SSD, to do the cloning.
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yes there is a program called Aconis i think that does that but i purchased my hard drives for storage only... i have a SSD drive for operating system. you also could just in stall the new drive along with the old one and just copy and paste whatever you need to save to the new drive.
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Just to throw in my 2 cents here, the Disk Utility reformat mentioned above in Andrew's post is spot-on. The drive so far as been great to use. However, I'm running Mac 10.5.6 and it was immediately recognized when I first plugged it in: it mounted and Time Machine asked if I wanted to use it for backups...I did the reformatting anyway as the apps on board are no use to a Mac owner.BTW, the $99 price was unbelievable!Fingers crossed on reliability,Yikesboy
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I boot from USB CD drives and from USB 'thumb' drives using either FreeDOS or LINUX. Works great.
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Copy the software from the CD to a flash drive and the plug the flash drive into the ASUS and youre good to go. Works for me.I also purchase a little slim CD/DVD burner on ebay for about 46 bux. it plugs into two of the usb points, one for data and one for power. It's about 1/2" thick and just a little bigger the a CD.