Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have done both.. clone a drive, and start from scratch... The scratch is particularly hard, and time consuming. Cloning is a LOT easier....like basically 1 stroke of the keyboard.... I went from XP to Vista by scratch methodology.. and then cloned that drive so I have a spare, ready to go drive. ( the old smaller one) Thinking I would never have to scratch start again... Then I decided to get a new computer, with Windows 7... and had to start from scratch all over again.....I remember the pain.... I cloned my Wife's computer, and it works great.. went from a 80GB drive to a 500GB.. Simple! Frank Filippone Red735i at earthlink.net I weighed the two options, and felt that, even with all of the baggage, I, with my limited abilities, could clone a drive more successfully than I could do a clean install. And, with a factory-installed version of XP, I had no disk to start from. On the advice of a colleague on the Oly list, whose knowledgeable background is very helpful, I located an older version of Acronis, which did all I needed. The later versions still have growing pains, if I understand the situation correctly. Jim Nichols