> Its a Seagate. So you can download and use Seagate's version of Acronis.
> Thanks for the warning it looks like thats 2 cloning programs to avoid. Acronis is a very mature tool, and should work fine for you. I'm surprised to hear of problems. (Though often with ThinkPads problems can develop if a drive is formatted outside of the machine; the safest approach is to use a non-clone backup program like Windows or Lenovo backup, then a fresh disk install using the Thinkpad utility disk, and then restore the old backup.) >100% of your data...on the destination drive, right? There is no writing >happening to the source drive. What are some examples of how other tools >handle leaving your destination drive in a meaningful state? I lost it on the source. It apparently decided to defrag the source before cloning. Many of these software tools also allow for live partition resizing. Most allow you to cancel midway, at least if you are simply expanding the partition into unused disk space. I've tried Easus here as well, and as with cloning it does not let you exit gracefully. It took hours on an operation that Paragon typically handles in a few minutes. > Recommended free alternative program? I use the free version of Acronis for cloning and images, and have used the Paragon Partition Manager "Free Edition" for managing partitions with good success. For general/incremental backup I have both Crashplan and Novabackup installed on my machine. The latter came with a NAS, but I haven't tried it yet (though I used a version on my NovaStor tape drives 20 years ago); the former is not meant to work with a home NAS, but I managed to make it work against its will, it is free and works so invisibly that I actually use it. David _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
