If I hadn’t done a Google search for "windows boot external hard drive", I wouldn’t have come across this article<\/a> which mentioned Acronis True Image<\/a>.<\/p>\n I’m not a complete stranger to the concept of drive images — my department at work uses them all the time — but it wasn’t until I faced my own backup needs did I need to create an image of my drive.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n So I put my old drive back in the machine, downloaded<\/a> Acronis True Image, installed it, hooked in my new drive with the hard disk enclosure and had the software clone my old drive to the new one.<\/p>\n An hour later, I got the disk transfer I had been trying to accomplish in the last three days.<\/p>\n Yes, I had already reinstalled all my programs, but this morning, I attempted to read the KVUE allergy report<\/a>, and my browser would crash every time. I suspected it was Flash, but every time I tried to reinstall it, the installer would fizzle out.<\/p>\n I didn’t want installation bugs popping up at unexpected moments — I wanted my old drive copied to my new drive.<\/p>\n And now I do.<\/p>\n I would so love to buy a license for it, but it costs $44.95. Pretty cheap, but I just spent:<\/p>\n
| USB\/eSATA hard disk enclosure<\/td>\n | $75.76<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 160GB SATA internal hard drive<\/td>\n | $86.59<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Womble MPEG Video Wizard<\/td>\n | $69.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 512 MB of RAM<\/td>\n | $75.76<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Pinnacle Studio 10 (which I will never use)<\/td>\n | $48.71<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Sony DRU-802a CD\/DVD writeable drive<\/td>\n | $99.58<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| TMPGEnc Plus 2.5 license<\/td>\n | $37.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
TOTAL<\/strong><\/td>\n| $492.40<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n | All these upgrades had to be made at some point.<\/p>\n Maybe I’ll get a license after I find out how much of a raise I might be getting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An hour later, I got the disk transfer I had been trying to accomplish in the last three days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technophilia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4Bkjq-damn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |