Making new Image Bootable After Cloning. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics () Need help! I can clone my HD to a USB HD no problem. But when I try to boot from this drive I get the ARC and HAL file problem and nothing happens. Acronis...

please explain what I need to do to make my new image bootable after cloning. What options in Sysprep for SP2 do I use to prepare the old HD for the cloning? Is there anything I have to do afterward other that to remove the old HD and make the new image...

it more and am used to it. True Image can't format a CD or DVD while creating an image and needs 3rd party software installed to do this. Ghost doesn't handle oddball partitions (like hidden recovery partitions) as well as True Image when cloning drives....

partitions: I use Casper XP since I put the clone onto an archival HD which contains several clones - each made at various times. True Image can't do that without making an intermediate image file and then "restoring" that image...

number of computers it will be run on. Sorry, I thought the reference was to clones on removable drive trays, not to Firewire or USB external drives. I don't think MS objects to "image" files because the restoration process made to the original...

though.) Then drag 'n drop the needed file back to the system partition (which will be seen as just another Local Disk in the system) on the primary HD. That's the beauty of a bootable clone - you don't have to copy it back or "restore an image" - you...

Huh??? are you sure that you are responding to this thread? Apricorn EZgig CD is bootable, and can clone your old hard drive to your new one (it's an OEM version of Acronis True Image). Steps: 1. Put both 120GB hard drive and 500GB hard drive in separate...

HD clone / mirror image /bootable HD. What HD cloning/Mirror image software have you found to be the best that works w/in the below parameters? Must work w/in a Windows environment i.e.. no bootable CD/DVD Must work with 64bit applications / OS Device...

on Acronis True Image and capable of lots of things, so also get the Manual for the utilities and read it! Each can make a clone of your old drive to the new 1.5 TB one. Just note that Seagate's version will only make that clone TO a new Seagate drive, etc....

7. Now for the cloning sequence. I am assuming you want to buy a new hard drive and clone to it absolutely everything from your existing drive, including the OS, and making it bootable. Then you'd like to make it your new boot drive, and have the original one...