I'm using an old version or should I say it's old now. That was about 3 years ago and I only had to use it the one time and it was totally pain free.

No need to fret about it. Acronis will ask you exactly what you want to do, or at least this version did. I was amazed when I loaded the exact clone onto the new HDD. You could'nt even tell that that was a new drive. Everything was exact as it was before.

Oh and the Acronis program I used was not a trial version.

Good Luck Bob

Edit: I also agree with Peerless on burning to a disc. Big pain and never comes out like it was originally. The HDD to HDD is the way to go. IMHO

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