Simply clone to a larger drive. The primary use of cloning software is
not to produce a backup drive as I do but to increase the size of the
drive. I haven't bought a retail packaged drive in a long time but they
all used to come with cloning software exactly for that purpose. Some,
however, would refuse to run unless the target drive was their own
brand. That's why I use Acronis.
Your comment about insisting on "wiping" the source drive is something
I've never experienced. I have no idea why that should be true.
Chuck Norcutt
On 3/5/2012 1:41 PM, Mike Lazzari wrote:
>> I also use SyncBack and Acronis. Acronis is only used to make clones of
>> the boot drives for my desktop and laptop machines. That gets done on a
>> very irregular schedule.
>
> The only problem with cloning is that all the software I have (Acronis,
> Paragon) insists on wiping the entire source drive, i.e. all partitions.
> That was OK when 80gb drives were the norm. Now I can't create an 80gb
> partition on my 1tb drive to reserve for clones. What are my options? I
> have considered resurrecting and old functioning drive to use for
> dedicated clones. Not the best backup strategy to trust an 8 y.o.
> drive....but will work to archive XP.
>
> Mike
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