#Acronis true image free clone disk how to#

Use Acronis Universal Restore to make a cloned system bootable on the new hardware: follow the instructions in Step 5 in Acronis True Image 2021: how to restore to dissimilar hardware.

Download Acronis Universal Restore Bootable Media Builder and create Acronis Bootable Media with Acronis Universal Restore tool: follow the instructions in Step 3 in Acronis True Image 2021: how to restore to dissimilar hardware.

#Acronis true image free clone disk drivers#

Prepare necessary drivers for the target computer.Remove the cloned drive and connect it to the new computer.If you want to use the cloned disk on dissimilar hardware, additional steps should be taken: Connect the cloned drive to a new computer.To use the cloned drive on similar hardware on a different computer: To use the cloned drive on the current hardware: After the cloning operation completes, the system will inform you of the next steps to take.On the Finish step, ensure that the configured settings suit your needs, and then click Proceed.If any disk is unpartitioned, the program will automatically recognize it as the destination and bypass this step.

On the Destination Disk step, select the destination disk for the cloned data.On the Source Disk step, select the disk that you want to clone.In this case, the next steps will be bypassed and you will be taken to the cloning Summary screen. If the program finds two disks, one partitioned and another unpartitioned, it will automatically recognize the partitioned disk as the source disk and the unpartitioned disk as the destination disk. See Manual partitioning for more details about the manual mode.

The Manual mode provides more flexibility. In Automatic transfer mode, the partitions will be proportionally resized to fit your new hard drive. On the Clone Mode step choose whether to use Automatic or Manual transfer mode.On the sidebar, click Tools, and then click Clone disk.Disks encrypted with BitLocker need to be in an unlocked state for cloning. Disk cloning of such a disk will fail if the cloning tool requests a computer reboot, as Acronis bootable environment cannot read Bitlocker-encrypted disks.Otherwise, your computer might not start from the new hard drive. It is recommended that your old and new hard drives work in the same controller mode (for example, IDE or AHCI).Source and target disks must have equal logical sector size.Before cloning, it is recommended to create a backup of the entire original disk as a safety precaution.