ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE SERVER 7.0 User Manual

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Transferring system to a new disk Acronis True Image Server User’s Guide36 Copyright © SWsoft, 2000–2003Chapter 7. Transferring system to a new disk7.1. General informationSooner or later any PC user finds out his hard disk is too small. If you just don’thave space for data (e.g. family photos and videos), you can add another disk justfor data storage as described in the following chapter.But it can happen so that your hard disk can't provide enough space for theoperating system and installed applications, preventing you from updating yoursoftware. In this case you have to transfer system to a newer higher-capacity harddisk.To transfer your system to a new disk, you must first install in into the PC.If a PC doesn’t have place for another hard disk, you can temporarily install it in the place ofyour CD-ROM. If it’s still impossible, you can clone a hard disk by creating its image andrestoring it to a new hard disk with larger partitions.There are two transfer modes available: automatic and manual.In the automatic mode, you will just have to make several simple actions to transferall the data, including partitions, folders and files, to a newer disk making itbootable (if the older was bootable as well).There will be only one difference between these disks – partitions on the newer diskwill be larger. Everything else including the installed operating systems, data, disklabels, etc. will remain the same.Of course, this is the only result available in the automatic mode. The program can onlyduplicate the older disk layout to the new one. To obtain different result, you will have toanswer additional questions about cloning parameters.The manual mode will provide more data transfer flexibility.1. You will be able to select the method of partitions and data transfer:• As is;• New disk space is proportionally distributed between the old disk partitions;• New disk space is distributed manually.2. You will also be able to select operations to perform on the old disk:• Leave partitions (and data!) on the old disk;• Remove all information from the old disk;• Create new partitions on the old disk (and remove all the older information.)