This takes you back to the partitions screen, which is now labeled “Manual Relayout.” You’ll notice that the service partition is now showing 7 GB.
You'll need to loop through the relayout again in order to give the saved drive space back to the primary partition. This can take some time, but don't proceed until you're satisfied.
If cloning to a hard drive mounted in the laptop and running True Image in Windows, a restart is needed at this point. Then comes some of True Image’s traditional magic.
When the laptop restarts, it will start the cloning process without starting Windows. This ran for about 41 minutes and was not much to look at – mainly just a couple of track-bars.
If running from the boot disk, True Image will show a summary screen. The last item in the list will be to transfer the MBR or master boot record, which is what makes the new hard drive bootable. Select "Proceed," and True Image will start the cloning process. This also ran for about 41 minutes, although no reboot was needed.
After the operation is complete, select Operations, then Exit. While it's shutting down, remove the boot disk from the CD/DVD drive.
In either case, go to "Computer" after the restart, and you’ll see that you now have two identically named hard drives.
All that’s left now is the physical act of removing and replacing the laptop’s hard drive with the one from the enclosure.
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You may also be interested in reading the full Bright Hub Review of True Image 2009. If so, please follow the first link in the next section.
Further Reading
Bright Hub Review: Acronis True Image Home 2009 - Long revered for its ability to provide perfect disk images for cloning laptop drives, Acronis True Image also includes a powerful and fast backup feature that can provide entire drive backup as well as incremental backups. In this illustrated review, we take True Image Home 2009 through its paces.
Is Using Vista's Hybrid Sleep Good for my Laptop - Curious about whether the new power saving modes in Vista are actually better for use on the desktop than on your laptop? Here we look at Vista's hybrid sleep mode and how hibernation and sleep are different from Windows XP.
Bright Hub Review: APC UPB90 Universal Laptop Extender - Carrying and swapping laptop batteries on the plane is no fun. What if you could have a powerful battery extender capable of powering the notebook from your laptop's slim-line carrying case? Here we review the APC UPB90 universal laptop battery and find it to be an effective, but expensive product.
How to Dual Boot Windows 7 and Vista - Interested in trying the the Windows 7 beta version on your Vista PC? Vista includes a "Shrink Tool" that can re-size your Vista partition to make room for Windows 7. This can get complicated, but in this detailed step-by-step guide we cover shrinking the Vista partition and installing Windows 7.