How to Clone Drives With Acronis Clone Disk

In This article, I’m going to show you How to Clone Drives with Acronis Clone Disk? So, If you are interested to get this valuable information in a practical way, this article is going to be very helpful for you to learn Drives Cloning by Acronis Clone Disk Software.

Clone a Hard Disk, In this blog, I’m going to clone a Windows 10 system onto a replacement drive not end the system, and restart Windows. Clone a Windows computer, source, and target drive must have equal logical sector size. it’s recommended that your old and new hard drives add an equivalent controller mode. Dynamic drive can’t be a clone. A restart is required for the proceeding. this may allow True Image to try to to the clone during a low-level mode to make sure all a particular just like the drive.
Before starting the Drive Cloning, it’s recommended to make a backup of the whole original drive as a security precaution.

How to Clone a Disk Using Acronis Clone Drive

1- Run Acronis True Image 2020.

acronis ture image 2020 backup
Acronis True Image 2020

2- In the menu of True Image, click Tools, and then click Clone disk.

acronis ture image tools
Acronis True Image 2020 Tools

3- Choose a clone mode in Acronis Image True (Automatic or Manual). In Automatic (recommend) transfer mode, the partitions will be proportionally resized to fit your new hard drive. The Manual mode provides more flexibility. Select Manual mode for more options and then click Next.

acronis 2020 clone disk wizard
Acronis True Image 2020 Clone mode

4- Select the source disk from the list below that you want to clone and then click Next.

acronis 2020 clone source disk
clone disk wizard source disk

5- Destination Drive menu, select the target hard drive for the cloned data and then click Next.

acronis 2020 clone destination disk
clone disk wizard target disk

6- So, click ok to confirm the deletion of all the partitions on the destination disk drive.

acronis 2020 delete partition warning
partition of the destination hard disk

7- Select Proportional to move data from the old hard disk to the new hard disk and then click Next.

acronis 2020 clone move method
disk move method

8- Review the configured settings summary and then click the Proceed button to start cloning the hard disk.

acronis 2020 clone summary
clone disk wizard summary

9- A computer restart is required, click the restart button.

If Acronis say to restart your Computer, It means you have to restart your computer otherwise disk cloning operation will be canceled.

acronis 2020 clone restart required
Acronis restart is required

10- After restarting the computer, so the Acronis loader is starting.

starting acronis loader
starting Acronis loader

11- Acronis True Image 2020 hard disk cloning in progress.

acronis cloning progress
Acronis cloning progress

12- To use the cloned drive on the current hardware.

Turn off the computer

Remove the source drive

Turn on the computer

windows 10 desktop
Windows Server desktop

For more details visit the Acronis Site

Clone Disk Using Bootable Acronis Software

How to create a bootable clone drive

1- Boot the Windows Computer with Acronis bootable media, select Tools & Utilities, and then click Clone Disk.

acronis true image

2- On the clone mode so, select the Manual mode and then click Next.

disk mode

3- Select your source hard disk from the list below and then click Next.

clone disk source

4- Select the destination disk your new hard disk and then click Next.

clone disk target

5- Select the Proportional move method to move your data from an old disk to a new disk and then click Next.

clone disk move method

6- Review the clone disk operation Summary and click the Proceed button to start the cloning.

clone disk summary

7- Acronis cloning operation in progress.

cloning disk in progress

8- The disk is successfully cloned by Acronis Clone Disk so click the close button.

disk cloned successfully

How to use the cloned disk drive on the current hardware.

Turn off the computer Remove the source drive Connect the destination disk (cloned disk) and then Turn on the computer.

Jamil Parvez
Jamil Parvezhttps://www.xpertstec.com
Jamil Pervez works as a Network Administrator, based in Kuwait with a Primary focus on Microsoft technologies. Microsoft Certified MCSE, MCTP, MCITP, CCNP, CCIP, CCVP with 20 years of experience in administering Windows Servers, Exchange, VMWare, Veeam B&R, Veritas BackupExec.

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