Acronis Migrate Easy Deluxe | Upgrading to my new hard drive was a snap!

Acronis Migrate Easy Deluxe | Good Software but be sure to use the bootable CD method

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	Acronis Migrate Easy Deluxe Windows \| Acronis, 2002 average customer review:based on 2 reviews view larger image
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Upgrading to my new hard drive was a snap!

I ran out of room, and had to upgrade to a new hard disk drive for more space. I was dreading the process and expected to spend days on it - considering I've never installed one before. A friend suggested this program, thank goodness, because I installed it, and had my new hard disk drive up and running within 30 minutes. I don't recommend many things, but Migrate Easy made a normally painful process easy, fast and best of all, free of frustration. The best part of the program, to me, was its installation wizard. It made the installation process a breeze.

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Good Software but be sure to use the bootable CD method

I downloaded the software from the Acronis website. I was anxious to get the software quickly to clone my 80 GB laptop drive to a brand new 250 GB drive. I was out of storage space and I had the new drive in hand as well as a USB case to temporarily house the new drive while copying the entire contents of the laptop drive onto it.

For the cloning of my first laptop drive I did not make the bootable CD ROM that Acronis enables you the make. I did not have a blank burnable CD disk. I only had blank burnable DVDs and these did not work with their software. Moreover, the Acronis software allows you to go ahead and copy the software without using the bootable CD so I did not see the need for making a special trip to the store to buy a blank CD.

About 15 hours of fiddling later I now understand why it is a bad idea to attempt to clone your laptop drive without using the Acronis Bootable CD. If you do not use the Acronis Bootable CD then you will be running the copy software out of the same disk device that is the data source disk drive for your copying. This creates copying risk since you have to allow your laptop Windows operating system to execute programs running in the same source hard disk drive. Suffice it to say that some of the Windows virus security programs may interfere with your cloning operation. They did this in my case and my circumventing their action proceeded by trial and error. Acronis did a heroic job of trying to avoid for me all of these hazards caused by stupidity of not using the bootable CD and avoiding all of these risks to making a good clone copy. I spent many hours of fiddling disabling virus checkers rather the using the simple to make Bootable CD. My bad.

As an aside, I also hate asking for directions at gas stations.

I have just done the same job again, this time using the Acronis Bootable CD. I got some blank CDs at store on my next trip. What a joy it is to clone a disk using the bootable CD! No fiddling and the cloning operation just worked. Actually copying executes a little slower with the Bootable CD but comparisons are silly because if the copying works the on first copy you really don't care about the minor slowdown. I like the software but I think that the documentation should make it clearer that the bootable cd is more certain to make a perfect copy of the first try.

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