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I have 750GB HDD and wanted to clone to a 120GB. I selected Tools & Utilities>Manual>Source Disk-DISK1 & Destination Disk-DISK2>MOVED METHOD>PROPORTIONAL>PROCEED-click

Operation started & then Operation paused Reboot is required message. PLS. help ASAP

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Hello Roga,

Thank you for using Acronis Software.

Out from your post, I assume, you are using Acronis True Image Home. If the Software ask you for a reboot, then you should proceed. See this page of our Online Help.

Cloning a disk containing the currently active operating system will require a reboot. In that case, after clicking Proceed you will be asked to confirm the reboot. Canceling the reboot will cancel the entire procedure. After the clone process finishes you will be offered an option to shut down the computer by pressing any key. This enables you to change the position of master/slave jumpers and remove one of the hard drives.

Cloning a non-system disk or a disk containing an operating system, but one that is not currently active, will proceed without the need to reboot. After you click Proceed, Acronis True Image Home 2012 will start cloning the old disk to the new disk, indicating the progress in a special window. You can stop this procedure by clicking Cancel. In that case, you will have to repartition and format the new disk or repeat the cloning procedure. After the cloning operation is complete, you will see the results message.

Let me know if you need additional help please.

Thank you.

Roga,

Instead of cloning you should backup and restore. This will ensure that you have more control about what ATI is going to do on your partitions.

- Use Windows disk management to verify that the active partition is on the system disk.

- Print a screen shot of the disk management console for future reference,

- Uninstall any program you don't want on the SSD (eg: games, ). You can leave content and move it later out of the SSD.

- Do a full disk and partition backup of your current disk. Ideally store it on another internal disk or a USB disk. Include all partitions, even the hidden ones (no need to use the sector by sector setting)

- Put your SSD at the same spot at your current disk. Remove your current disk from the computer for the time being.

- Boot your computer on the Acronis recovery CD

- Restore each partition at a time in the same order they were laid out (use your screen shot). This will allow to control resizing and offset to align the disk

- Leave a 1MB space before the first partition (maybe system reserved?)

- Mark the correct partition active (maybe system reserved?)

- Leave the drive letter change option alone

- Do not resize any partition except the C:\system partition or any partition you created and want on the SSD

- Make sure that each partition has a size that is a whole number of MB (doesn't matter for the last partition)

- No need to reboot inbetween partition restores

- After the last partition, restore the MBR+track0 and the disk signature

That's it.

Reboot on your new SSD. Then, if you want to use your old disk, put it back in the computer, reboot. Delete whatever you want, etc.
You have some tweaks to optimize your SSD:
- disable automatic defragmentation of the SSD,
- disable superfetch service,
- disable indexing of the SSD content,
- leave the page file on the SSD,
- verify that TRIM is activated http://www.ghacks.net/2010/09/14/verify-that-trim-is-enabled-in-windows…