I used MaxBlast5 downloaded from maxtor website. It is a limited version of Acronis True Image but has the cloning feature you are looking for. I originally installed win 7 rc on a 40 gig drive. I was able to clone to a bigger maxtor drive (120gb). Running for about 2 weeks now with no problems. I used the automatic settings and followed the prompts.
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Acronis messed up my MBR . I tryed Macrium reflect,it screwed up major .I just want to do an image so I can go to a bigger hard drive . Kelly
If you had trouble with both those products - that is surprising.
If you want to make an image or clone , give Todo (free) a whirl - see if you can get that to work for you:
Free backup and restore software for system backup and restore, partition or disk backup and restore, disk clone and disk image under Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7/2003/2008..
Paragon have a new program B&R 10. It has a couple of bugs they are working on - it will be truly excellent, like all Paragon products. You might also try that:
Free Backup Software: Paragon Backup & Recovery 10 Free Edition - Overview
Acronis works great for me. You sure you're following the steps properly? There is an option to check the MBR. Make sure you have it checked.
I had a problem with Acronis when I backed up and tried to restore one of my Windows 7 machines.
It had 3 things it was backing up
--MBR
--100MB system reserved partitioin
--150GB C drive.
Turns out my problem was that when I was doing the restore, I wasn't marking the 100MB system reserved partition as Active...so after a restore I would get a message at boot saying BOOTMGR couldn't be found. Once I discovered that little trick, I was back in business.
Have you tried these ones:
*GPARTED
*Clonezilla
*Selfimage
*PING
Acronis, used properly, has always worked great for me, for both cloning and imaging.
But to fix an MBR problem, one can probably just boot from the Windows 7 installation disk and run startup repair.
Yes, but if the System Recovery is not marked as Active...then you can run the fixmbr tools all you want and it won't resolve the issue. I spent a few hours thinking the problem was with my MBR...and I ran every repair utility and windows command line tool trying to get the box to boot. Eventually noticed that my 100MB "system reserved" partition was not set to active. Once I did that, the missing BOOTMGR.EXE went away.
I ran Acronis twice and it screwed up the MBR twice, there is a thread about Acronis and Win 7 on this forum.I downloaded TODO and it is simple (supports Win 7) and seem to work.At least it did for meon 2 differnt computers,Win 7 home and 7 Pro. Kelly
Ghost wouldn't work, but TODO did!
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