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Clone hard drive to another lager drive.

1) Create Acronis bootable disc, boot from it and use "Clone Disk" option to clone your source drive to a new drive. Read Acronis True Image Home user guide chapter 11 "Creating bootable media" for more information about Acronis True Image Home bootable CD creation http://www.allacronis.com/manuals.html

2) Connect second drive. Use Manual Mode for cloning -> Choose Delete partitions on the destination hard drive if it contains any partitions (note that all data on destination drive will be erased in any case, so if you have some critical information we recommend you to copy it first) or Do not delete partitions on the destination drive (in that case you should choose another hard drive).

3) On Old Hard Disk Usage window choose Keep Data, it will not wipe your source hard drive after the cloning. It will stay intact and you will be able to use it later.

4) On Moving Method window choose Proportional or Manual method as you have a bigger drive. We do not recommend you to choose As Is method because it will result in unallocated space on the destination drive.

5) Follow wizard instructions to complete the process.

After the cloning is complete make sure you disconnect the original hard drive while performing the first boot from the target one. The thing is that if the original hard drive is not removed from the computer before the first boot from the target drive Windows gets somehow "confused" while trying to mount the letter for the system partition because it is already associated with the original hard drive. As a result the whole system will be unbootable.

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