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USB bootable TI 2013 Clone drive

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I purchased TI 2013 back in Aug 2012. I immediately discovered a bug where when using the USB Bootable version of TI, and attempting to clone a drive to another drive of the same manufacturer and model, TI 2013 only sees ONE drive and refuses to clone saying there is only one drive installed.

For instance, attempting to clone a Samsung 830 128GB SSD to a Samsung 830 256GB SSD is impossible as TI 2013 says there is only one drive.

I still run into the problem occasionally, and wind up having to clone twice--first to a different brand SSD, and then to the ultimate destination, the higher capacity SSD that is the same brand/model.

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Can Windows see both drives? This may be a Windows issue, not an ATI issue.

Windows identifies disks by disk signature, and two identical disks (same brand and model) likely have the same disk signature. This causes a signature collision, so Windows and applications can't fully address both drives concurrently.

I had the same thing occur with two Western Digital drives of same model. The solution is to use Windows Disk Management to correct the issue.

Lancorp,

Not sure of the procedures you used but what is recommended by Acronis in their Knowledge base is

1. Install the blank target disk inside the computer using the same connectors as the old disk.
2. Locate the source disk elsewhere via other methods.
3. Boot into the the Recovery Cd
(My suggestion is also suggest that you use the TI add disk option and prepare the disk by deleting any partitions, etc so TI will initialize the disk--do this procedure for sure if the target disk has been involved in aborted attempts.)
Then perform the clone. My preference is the manual method--if cloning is being done.
4. Shutdown and disconnect the source
5. Boot with only the new disk connected.

For my own personal use, due to the risk factor, I prefer to use the backup and restore method rather than use the clone procedure. If I am going to do the clone, I take the time to make a complete disk image backup so I have a "fall back' plan should the clone cause difficulty to my source disk.