usb 3 to usb 3 clone fails
I have a boot drive from a PC with a failed motherboard. I want the boot disk in the new machine I'm building to be on an SSD. I put the old boot drive in a usb 3 docking station on one of my other PC's with the target SSD in a usb 3 enclosure. True Image 2013 sees both drives, allows me to appropriately designate source and target, but fails on cloning.
I see that failure in the log file, but do not see why there is a failure unless this is a method of cloning not supported by True Image.
Have thought about creating an ISO of the boot hd I want to clone and using that to create the ssd I want, but not sure that would work or how to go about it.
Advice on any of the above would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
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I've been able to back-up and access via usb3, so haven't tried 2. In the case of the cases [:-)] I'm using for the drives my options are usb 3 or esata. I only have one esata port on the machine I'm using so went with usb3.
The new interface has me a little thrown (Acronis and I go back about 10 years, have 18 registered products)...If you could point me in the direction of making an image and then restoring it, I'd appreciate it greatly.
Thanks!
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Charles,
I recommend looking through either Grover's Guides, link in the left hand margin, or looking at the online webhelp for 2013. Grover's Guides show more variations and pictures to help to understand what various options can do.
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Charles,
Look at the beginning part of link #2 below. This shows how to make the backup via Windows or there is a link there about using the CD to make the backup. If using the CD is very straightforward. Checkmark the disk box as to what is to be included within the backup and all partitons will become checked.
To restore the backup to a smaller disk, look at link #3 below and follow the item 1 listing.
Is this Window 8?
is the Source disk the new GPT partitioning style?
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Yep, Windows 8 machines all around...
Nope, not GPT, stuck with MBR (and why not after all...).
Thanks for the links...
I may just do a clean install (previous versions of Windows sometimes had trouble when seeing a new motherboard), but this is good stuff
Thanks again!
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