Drive Cloning that actually works with SSD

[Geforce255]

I'm thinking of updating my primary SSD, but it is where the hive sits, and I really don't want to reinstall everything. With mechanical drives, I would simply clone the drive using Ghost or Acronis, but neither works with SSD's

Anyone know of a good drive cloning program that works from one SSD to another?

[Steve R Jones]

Description

The following Acronis products have full support ofSolid State Drives (SSD):

• Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5
• Acronis Backup & Recovery 11
• Acronis True Image Home 2011
• Acronis True Image Home 2012
• True Image 2013 by Acronis
• Acronis Disk Director 11
• Acronis Snap Deploy 4

http://kb.acronis.com/content/2699

[Wurm]

I use Acronis for SSD

[Geforce255]

Description

The following Acronis products have full support ofSolid State Drives (SSD):

• Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5
• Acronis Backup & Recovery 11
• Acronis True Image Home 2011
• Acronis True Image Home 2012
• True Image 2013 by Acronis
• Acronis Disk Director 11
• Acronis Snap Deploy 4

http://kb.acronis.com/content/2699

It sounds good, but they don't work, and Acronis support is non-existent.

[Wurm]

I repeat I've used Acronis to clone one SSD to another more than once.

I've also used Acronis to clone an SSD to a HDD and back again more than once.

The DEMO version doesn't Clone. So if what you are really asking for is a freeware program, then I'm sorry I can't help you.

I own Acronis True Image Home 2012 BTW.

[Geforce255]

I repeat I've used Acronis to clone one SSD to another more than once.

I've also used Acronis to clone an SSD to a HDD and back again more than once.

The DEMO version doesn't Clone. So if what you are really asking for is a freeware program, then I'm sorry I can't help you.

I own Acronis True Image Home 2012 BTW.

I bought the home version for about $50. It failed on two different SDD's. A 40GB Intel and an 80GB OCZ. Both errored out when creating an image. I'm going to try Drive Image XML next.

[Wurm]

I only use Corsair SDD but that shouldn't be an issue, sounds like a motherboard/bios-setting problem to me.

What error code?

[Steve R Jones]

This is a powerful freebie. Only thing I saw about SSD's was the recovery tool section...


Free EaseUS® Partition Master 9.2.1 Home Edition
http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm

[Geforce255]

It just gives me "An unknown error has occurred, process aborted."
Looks like DrivImage XML might work though, so I'm going to go ahead and upgrade and hope for the best.

Thanks for the help.

[Wurm]

Update us!

DriveImageXML is pretty good, never used it to clone a drive before though.

[Geforce255]

I should get the new SSD tomorrow, if so I'll do the cloning this weekend.

[PCVSNotebook]

If you have Any Seagate or Western Digital harddisk , even if on USB box , you can get Acronis for free .. Just download it from there .. and when you want to use it , Plug in any external usb box with Seagate / Western digital inside .. the software will run ! be sure it is plugged in all the time of your use of the software...

and yea , you need that for notebooks =)

EDIT :

1- Acronis free from Seagate LINK

2- WesternDigital Free Acronis Link

Remember . If you dont have the Harddisk installed in your desktop/notebook , connect Seagate/WD drive in external usb it will work fine ...