Cloning on USB Drive Problems
I just got the Home 2012 version. My goal is to create a bootable external USB drive in case my hard drive crashes. I did a "clone disk" from the "tool and utilities" tab. I followed the instructions and seemed to start out okay. The Windows XP Dell GX520 desktop rebooted and it appeared to create all the data on the USB drive.
I then rebooted the PC using the USB drive to boot from. The Windows XP sequence started and about 15 seconds in, I got the blue screen of death. Anybody else encounter this? Did I do something wrong here?
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Larry,
It is virtually impossible to boot windows from a USB disk. If you clone your system disk to a USB disk, you would have to uninstall the physical from the USB enclose and put in the system...
Users who want to have a hard disk on the ready for replacement buy the replacement disk, put it in a USB enclosure, clone to it and keep it.
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Hi,
Similar issue with 2012 and XP SP3. Clone disk selection - to identically sized SATA but in USB housing - gets BSOD at the 'select target disk' move. I have previously successfully used exactly this method to generate C drive backups, which worked fine using the (limited) WD version of Acronis. Never tried to boot from the USB status, understand why that would have issues. I guess before uninstalling 2012 I should try putting the target disk into a SATA connection in the system, but that's a real kluge compared with routinely cloning it the way I used to.
Any ideas or testing sequences welcomed.
Thanks,
Craig
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Craig,
The BSOD is surprising and seems to come from a driver issue.
What happens if you clone from the recovery CD?
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