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Acronis True Image Home 2010 - Unable to clone drive

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I just purchased a new 2tb hdd. My primary (source) hdd is 1tb. When I try to clone the drive I receive the following error:

Failed to move the selected data. Make sure that your new hard drive is not smaller than your old one and your partition does not contain errors. You cann check for the errors and correct them using a special utility.

I have checked the drive for errors and all drives are normal. I have tried to perform the cloning using Windows 7 and also by using the system recovery disk. If you know how to get past this issue please respond.

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Place the new target disk in the position (cable connections) of the original disk, move the original disk to different cable connections.
Boot to the Rescue Media. Use the tool" Add a new disk" to create an un-allocated MBR disk. Be sure to select the new disk (2TB) when using this tool. It WILL make the drive BLANK! Once you have used the "add a new disk" tool, attempt the clone again. After the clone completes, turn off the system (you do not have to exit the Rescue Media menu), and disconnect the original drive before booting into Windows the first time. After the cloned drive boots up, you can then shut down the system and re-attach the original drive and do with it as you wish.

Just so I am clear are you saying the issue is with the cables or an issue with creating an un-allocated MBR disk? I thought I already made an un-allocated MBR disk using Windows 7 disk managment. Thanks for your quick response as I have found this to be very frustrating as a semi-computer literate person.

Not an "issue" with the cables. This is just the most reliable way to perform a clone. Using Windows to delete and/or format the partitions, is not the same as using the Acronis tool "Add a new disk". The Windows tool that can perform the same type of "initialization" is the command line tool "diskpart". Diskpart can be used to "clean" a drive of all of its partition and file system information, but is complex to use for non-technical folks. The Acronis tool works well, and may allow a successful clone after using it.

Additionally, if your source drive contains any file system errors, the clone will fail.
You can use the Windows command line utility chkdsk to check for errors.

Open an administrative command prompt in Windows 7 and issue the flowing command:

chkdsk X: /f (substituting your drive letter for "X") for each drive letter assigned to your original drive to check for errors, and try the clone again.

If it still fails, a more comprehensive scan for errors can be accomplished with this chkdsk command:

chkdsk X: /r (substituting your drive letter for "X") for each drive letter assigned to your original drive, and try the clone again.

The "/r" option not only checks the file system for errors, but also scans the entire surface area of each volume (drive letter) for errors. This will take quite some time on a large volume.

If you still have errors during the clone, use Windows to create a single partition, and format it, on the new 2GB target drive using the full (long - not quick) format. Then boot to the Acronis Rescue Media and attempt the clone again.

I am trying to run chkdsk on my c: drive, but I get "access denied as you do not have sufficient privileges. You have to invoke this utility running in elevated mode." What does this mean and how do I get around it?

In Windows 7, click start, then type CMD in the search box, right click on the command prompt (CMD.exe) in the results, and select "run as administrator". This will open an administrative level command prompt. You can tell if you have an administrative command prompt by looking at the title of the window, it will say "Administrator:Command Prompt"

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/783-elevated-command-prompt.html

Ok. I have run chkdsk on all my drives and there were no errors. I have "added a new disk" using Acronis. This operation was completed within a few seconds. Is this normal? I was expecting it to take a few minutes. I have also switched the cables. I still receive the same original error.