
Partition 2, the Vista partition is encrypted with BitLocker. The source disk has 3 partitions, an EISA (Dell disk utilities), Vista, and Vista Boot partition. Although honestly I still prefer simply moving data over itself, and keep the original Windows install on the new computer, install the programs you need.and then adjust things as needed.I am using Acronis True Image Workstation 9.1 and trying to clone 1 identical SCSI 34 GB hard disk to another from Vista Ultimate SP1 to make a Vista test system clone of my production system on the same machine to allow me to check out updates in a test environment. This is where some cloning software that supports bare metal restores can help.

Sometimes it will boot up to a login prompt if the hardware is older or similar enough, other times.like a totally different chipset and drive controller.she'll simply blue screen every time. Windows PnP will detect all new hardware, video, sound, chipset, drive controllers, network, various other things, etc. With traditional cloning methods.if you take that new hard drive, and move it to totally different computer hardware.like a different brand/model computer, the first time it attempts to boot up.it will often have a difficult time. Or.for cloning, you can clone that image to other computers which are the same make/model computers.identicle hardware (after going through certain sysprep steps). No new hardware (well, except for the new larger hard drive).

Traditional Disk Cloning is used to upgrade a hard drive on the same computer, say you have your computer.and an 80 gig drive, and you want to replace that 80 gig drive with a new 250 gig drive.you'd clone it.

We still don't know exactly what you're doing.
