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Trying to Clone (non-bootable) Data drive, Clone process fails immediately with no error message.

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Running Win7, True Image 2015 build 6525. I am trying to clone a non bootable WD 1TB data drive to a similar WD 3 TB drive. I go through the Clone Disc options (both manual or automatic), get to the "Proceed" button. The Acronis "A" logo shows up in the system tray, and when I hover over, it says preparing operation, and then disappears.

Nothing else happens. No error messages, nothing.

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Just a stab in the dark since no one else has replied; have you tried the 'Add New Disk' function on the 3TB drive first? I've run into the same problem, where even though the disk is completely blank, Acronis can't seem to write to it.

Kiran

Larry,

You might have a problem with the drive formatting of these drives. If your 3TB drive is using a 4K advanced formatting which it probably is and your 1TB drive is not this may be the issue in attempting a clone because a clone is a bit for bit copy of one disk to another.

So I am going to ask what may be viewed as a ridiculously stupid question. Since this is solely a data drive and doesn't store software, or settings of any kind, what would be the harm in just "copying and pasting" from Drive D: to (new and formatted) Drive E:???

There should be no harm. I always handle data only drive replacement that way.

One problem with just copying the data over, is that Windows is notorious for either stopping on a file or folder because it's either a system file, or the name is too long, etc.. and unless you babysit it.. it could take hours, depending on the amount of data. And if it fails, how do you know where to restart the process? Unless you move the files, you have to start over.

A faintly better option is to use xcopy at a DOS prompt.

Acronis should have worked. Of course that could be said in response to nearly every post on this forum lately.

Since the OP states that disk is solely a data disk, there should not be any system files on such a disk. Nevertheless, xcopy is another viable option to transfer data from one disk to another and can be used. Some users may not be comfortable using a direct command such as xcopy however.