CopyWipe vs Acronis

[Bob Hatch]

On Saturday evening I started a clone using CopyWipe Clone, Raw Sector.
The process took about 4 1/2 hours cloning from a 250GB internal SATA
drive to a 250 GB SATA drive in an external USB dock.

Last night I cloned another drive using Acronis Clone, Automatic. This
time it was cloning the 250GB internal SATA drive to a 500GB SATA drive
using the same drive dock. This clone took 1 1/2 hours. I did not clone
from Windows. I used the Acronis Emergency Boot Disk, booted from the
DVD drive.

This morning I disconnected the C: drive and attached the Copy/Wipe
clone disk to the C: cables, booted the computer to Windows 7 and it
booted fine. After about 2 minutes of operation a message said the
computer would have to reboot to apply the changes. Different drive than
the original is my guess. Rebooted and it worked fine.

Next step was to test the Acronis clone. Same thing happened. The
Acronis clone adjusted the sizes of the partitions making each one a bit
larger so that the full allocatable size of the drive was used.

I don't see where it makes much difference which program is used, except
for the time involved. If I didn't have Acronis I would start the
Copy/Wipe clone before I went to bed and put it in the drawer when I got
up the next morning.

That said I will most likely stick with Acronis because that's the
program I'm using for my daily backup of my D: drive. All files are on
D:, programs on C:. It's just the way I do it. BTW, C: and D: are actual
physical drives, not partitions.

Thanks for all the feedback to my previous questions regarding Acronis.

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[SC Tom]

On Saturday evening I started a clone using CopyWipe Clone, Raw Sector.
The process took about 4 1/2 hours cloning from a 250GB internal SATA
drive to a 250 GB SATA drive in an external USB dock.

Last night I cloned another drive using Acronis Clone, Automatic. This
time it was cloning the 250GB internal SATA drive to a 500GB SATA drive
using the same drive dock. This clone took 1 1/2 hours. I did not clone
from Windows. I used the Acronis Emergency Boot Disk, booted from the DVD
drive.

This morning I disconnected the C: drive and attached the Copy/Wipe clone
disk to the C: cables, booted the computer to Windows 7 and it booted
fine. After about 2 minutes of operation a message said the computer would
have to reboot to apply the changes. Different drive than the original is
my guess. Rebooted and it worked fine.

Next step was to test the Acronis clone. Same thing happened. The Acronis
clone adjusted the sizes of the partitions making each one a bit larger so
that the full allocatable size of the drive was used.

I don't see where it makes much difference which program is used, except
for the time involved. If I didn't have Acronis I would start the
Copy/Wipe clone before I went to bed and put it in the drawer when I got
up the next morning.

That said I will most likely stick with Acronis because that's the program
I'm using for my daily backup of my D: drive. All files are on D:,
programs on C:. It's just the way I do it. BTW, C: and D: are actual
physical drives, not partitions.

Thanks for all the feedback to my previous questions regarding Acronis.

--
"To announce that there must be no criticism
of the President, or that we are to stand by
the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic
and servile, but is morally treasonable to the
American public."
Theodore Roosevelt
http://www.bobhatch.com
http://www.tdsrvresort.com

I've never used Copy/Wipe, but have had the same great results that you did
with Acronis. It has save my bacon twice so far, and I will continue to use
it.
Thanks for your comparative results!

 

[Walter R.]

I use Acronis, too. It works fine.

With today's huge hard drives, I can afford to do my backups: I use drive 1
(C to back up Drive 2, which holds all of my data and also an Acronis
image of drive 1 (C. That way I can recover easily, if either drive
crashes.

Belts and suspenders: I also keep a monthly *copy* of all of drive 1 at a
location away from my house.

 

[philo]

I use Acronis, too. It works fine.

With today's huge hard drives, I can afford to do my backups: I use drive 1
(C to back up Drive 2, which holds all of my data and also an Acronis
image of drive 1 (C. That way I can recover easily, if either drive
crashes.

Belts and suspenders: I also keep a monthly *copy* of all of drive 1 at a
location away from my house.

Good idea

and not only that

what if for whatever reason...the clone failed

and the original drive was wiped


No way would I *ever* wipe a drive until I was 100% positive the clone
was good