ATTN HD UPGRADERS - Acronis lies

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BikerMike · #1 Post by **BikerMike** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 12:21 pm

I am in the middle of a HD upgrade attempt and have been getting some good advice and guidance from others on this forum; so I would like to pass this along - when Acronis tells you that the True Image Home trial version is full-featured, they lie.
I was able to make a boot CD. I opened up my desktop and for about the fifth time this weekend re-cabled it to put my new and old TP drives on an ATA cable for cloning (I'm getting a lot of practice at this and at removing/installing the TP's HD). I set the machine up to boot from CD, and when Acronis loaded I set it up to perform the clone operation. When everything was set up, and it was at the last screen before beginning the clone, the proceed button was grayed out and the program informed me that the trial version only supports cloning from windoze. Which I already know won't work. Sure wish I'd known that before I cracked my case.
So - do I send my fifty bucks to a company that has already lied to me once???

Nolonemo · #2 Post by **Nolonemo** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 12:56 pm

Last time I checked (which was a while ago) it was clear that you couldn't make bootable rescue media with the trial version....

dsvochak · #3 Post by **dsvochak** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 5:16 pm

As far as I know the trial version works in Windows. You just have to use the procedures outlined in the thread I pointed you to your T2x T3x posting.

DIGITALgimpus · #4 Post by **DIGITALgimpus** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 5:49 pm

Nolonemo wrote:Last time I checked (which was a while ago) it was clear that you couldn't make bootable rescue media with the trial version....

Indeed, I remember that as well.

If they didn't do that, then everyone would just use a trial for this 1 time upgrade, and they would be out quite a few sales.

Rather hard to try something you typically only use once.

irfan · #5 Post by **irfan** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 5:47 pm

I wonder whether it would be possible to apply the cloning if one of HDs were hooked up through the USB port. Say, I have two HDs, one inside the notebook, an the other one inside an external enclosure.

BikerMike · #6 Post by **BikerMike** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 11:26 pm

That is the method dsvochak suggested - see post above. That way you can use Acronis from Windows. I was able to clone my HD that way without problems.

irfan · #7 Post by **irfan** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 8:17 am

that is great. Now I only need to buy an external enclosure, which I would do anyway inorder to use my old 2.5" HD as an external one.

ATTN HD UPGRADERS - Acronis lies

ATTN HD UPGRADERS - Acronis lies

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