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Wow…… got it done it, I got the ‘One purchase license’, installed it  and had the clone done in no time – I’m happy, thanks folks.  Dave

Thanks all for the inputs…. I’ve given up on Acronis, after a bit of thinking I don’t like the way they are going…. and their antics’, I’m gonna’ give Macruium a try –  at least they DO reply to people unlike Acronis.

Dave

To clone I used Acronis 11…. it cloned the entire drive with the two partitions, I could put the cloned drive in and it would boot no problems, done it many a time…. sorry  I can’t do any screen shots – I don’t have Acronis installed anymore.

I was going to try and re-install it but wasn’t sure if it would ‘register’ with Acronis since they had changed their name, and besides I must have deleted my account with them…..  this was about  2021,   I’d deleted the installation and removed all the registry files.  I was trying to find out if I could re-install it was why I posted.

Maybe they wanted my money every 12 months, there’s plenty more fish in the sea, so I’m better ditching them, no more Acronis thanks.

Just registered with you all here.

TBH,  I don’t mind paying for an item if it’s reliable and it works how I want….. all I wanna do is to clone a drive with a computer  without any fancy trimmings Acronis did that for me once…. until it went ‘pear shaped’  and I un-installed it and cleared the registry.

Prolonging the thread here, sorry.  I cloned the hard drive as usual lo and behold it only cloned one partition, I tried and tried and tried – I got differing results.

It would clone one partition only leaving the other blank, this could be either the boot or file section… a funny thing happened sometimes the blank partition would be given the correct drive letter and sometimes not, which ever partition it was blank.

Normally I could see all the programs and files on the cloned drive, under a differing drive letter obviously, this was usually G and H in my case. No other programs was  affected, none at all.  Dave