How to Clone a Hard Drive Using Acronis True Image 2010 Linus Tech Tips

I had to clone a drive for a Tech Tips episode I did recently and it was so painless with Acronis 2010 that I thought I'd better do an episode about it.

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so this video is going to be kind of a
precursor to something I'm going to be
working on shortly
this is how to clone a hard drive so I'm
going to start with pressing the f-block
because i have one of those old
microsoft keyboard that actually has an
F lock button
so I'm pressing f11 going into my boot
menu I have three drives attached to
this system the first one is a DVD drive
ok inside there i have a copy of a
Cronus true image 2010 and then over
here I have the two drives that I want a
clone
so I've got a raptor 160 gigabyte hard
drive and that is going to be my source
drive and then i'm going to be cloning
that to a vertex 60 gig SSD
so i'm going to select the CD or DVD as
my boot drive and then it is going to
keep going and loading things won't take
too long there we go
and we'll get right into the Cronus
treatment
oh look at how my mouse is behaving
that's very strange
I can't move side to side that's the
weirdest thing I've seen in a while so
I'll use the keyboard and just do that
there we go problem solved basically
what I'm doing this for is we did
detectives episode recently where we
compared a hard drive to an SSD and I
have a couple complaints that the
comparison wasn't exactly fair
the drives that I used where the vertex
limited edition from ocz which is the
fastest ocz vertex SSD on the market at
this time and then the drive I compared
it against was the western digital one
terabyte caviar black which is a very
respectable drive by any stretch of the
imagination but I had a lot of people
asking me well what if we did it with a
10000k RPM drive
what if you use the lower end SSD so
that's exactly the comparison i'm
prepping now i'm using that same image
which I've already cloned to the Raptor
160 gig 10,000 RPM drive and then i'm
going to load that on to a vertex 60 gig
which is again
I much lower end SST so we're going to
go down to tools and utilities quick
clone disk and we're gonna go manual
mode then i'm going to select my source
disk which is disc to the 149 gigabyte
western digital
there we go click next and then i'm
going to select my target disk
click Next ok I'm overriding a previous
version of the same image so it should
be just fine i'm going to use
proportional and i'm going to proceed it
takes about
in half an hour and then I will be able
to shoot my little quick episode
comparing the vertex 60 against the WD
raptor 10,000 RPM drive