Image Drive using Firewire enclosure

[Kyocera]

Hi all, I have a PCMCIA firewire HD enclosure that seems to be working pretty well now that I got a 5v adapter for it.

My question is can I use Acronis to clone my hd to the hd in the enclosure? Will it be able to boot to the recovery partition?

I have downloaded TrueImage 9.0 and TrueImage server 8.0.

[DataAve]

Yes

[dsvochak]

Yes, assuming you don't make any of the mistakes described here: http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=19748 (but I think you're too smart for that).

The only thing that could come up is described here (F11 prompt missing after cloning): http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=17527 which directly applies only to T2x machines but I assume there must be a similar fix for T30's somewhere on the IBM site.

(If you're going to try this on the T42 make sure you read all the HPA cloning threads first.)

[Kyocera]

Thanks, appreciate the help. Just doing the t30 since I don't have recovery cd's. I picked up a 5400 rpm HD and am going to try that out.

[Kyocera]

Acronis TrueImage is truly a great tool, I am amazed at the difference of use from using Norton Ghost in the past.

The image was transferred quickly and so far everything, including the recovery partition is able to boot. I tested the F11 function to see if it would boot to start the recovery process and it did.

Happy camper here

[DataAve]

Sounds as if it is good. I will give it another go at it-I haven't used it since 4.0 (I think).

[dsvochak]

Nice that everything went smoothly for you.

I use True Image more for creating backups than for cloning to new drives. I've got a 3.5" 200gb drive in a USB Enclosure and create backups on a regular basis. You can put a lot of drive images on a 200gb drive. They restore easily, except for one problem I haven't solved when I tried to restore an image to a smaller drive on a W2K machine. It just won't boot from the smaller drive. Not a big issue though.