Cloning disk operation
When trying to clone my drive C into my new 250GB SSD, it never advances over "what to exclude". I bought the program with the crucial installation kit online. Please help.
1. I have tried initializing the disk
2. I tried disabling the antivirus for what its worth
3. I tried to reboot
4. I tried to format the target/destination disk
ALL have failed.
Going to be using Macrium Reflect because Acronis TrueImage does not work. I will report results back here in this thread so information is not scattered.
Be advised that if you are attempting to perform a clone operation from the installed Windows True Image application that even thought the app allows this it is not recommended. We recommend that users perform clone tasks from the bootable recovery media only. Additionally, we recommend that users perform a full or entire disk backup of all partitions including hidden partitions and that such backups are validated and tested prior to any clone attempt.
Having same issue with trying to clone a Crucial 120Gb SSD to a new Crucial 500Gb SSD through USB; 14 hours and still not done; operation status has been at 1 minute 4 seconds remaining for about 3 hours. Guess it's time to cancel and to try this using the bootable media disk.
Yes, if you are going to clone do so from the bootable recovery media.
Yes, if you are going to clone do so from the bootable recovery media.
Thanks for the reply. I created the bootable media disk, changed the boot order in the BIOS and it opened up as expected. I went through the steps to prepare to clone the drive and then saw that the target SSDwas going to be partitioned into C: and D: drives; the System Reserved would be C: and what is C: on the source SSD would become D:.
I already have another D: drive in my system and although I saw the note that Acronis may use different letters than Windows, I thought I should confirm that this won't affect my current D: drive in some way. I presume that once I swap out the SSD drives I can use Disk Management to change the drive letters, but for me this is just theory as I haven't done this before on a desktop. I did recently use Acronis to clone a laptop SSD to a larger drive and that worked well, but that just involved one drive.
Current Disks:
- Disk 0 - System Reserved 100 MB NTFS - C: 119.14 GB NTFS (Boot, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)
- Disk 1 - D: 1863.01 GB NTFS (Page File, Primary Partition)
One last question, the new Crucial SSD came with an Acronis True Image HD Activation Key; would it be better to use that, or should I stick with my registered copy of 2013?
Thanks again for your help
What settings are you using for the clone? It has been my experience when cloning from a smaller to larger SSD that choosing the Manual mode and proportional move method. It appears that you are running Windows 7 OS with only the 100 MB Reserve partition and the C: System partition so these settings should work for you. Attached link for informational purposes.
http://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/ATIH2014/index.html#…
I used the Acronis True image bootable USB also and it didn't work any variation of settings-automatic and manual with different variations.
Instead I used Minitool partition wizard and it worked. Just in case it was a fluke I also tried with Macrium reflect and it worked as well, Macrium reflect worked better, along with the command prompt with DISKPART built into the USB media.
With DISKPART I removed the drive letters, cloned the disk with Macrium reflect, made the new cloned partition active with DISKPART, shutdown, unplugged the source hard drive, rebooted into the bootable media, checked the disk was active primary and marked as 'C', then I booted it completely I was good within an hour for a 150 GB USED/250GB windows position from a 1TB hard disk. After I wiped the source partition and resized my mechanical hard drive.
What settings are you using for the clone? It has been my experience when cloning from a smaller to larger SSD that choosing the Manual mode and proportional move method. It appears that you are running Windows 7 OS with only the 100 MB Reserve partition and the C: System partition so these settings should work for you. Attached link for informational purposes.
http://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/ATIH2014/index.html#…
Well, after 24 hours, with the last 14 reading "2 seconds" remaining, still no joy. I think my next try will be to remove the source disk from the computer and replace it with the new target disk, and then hook the source disk up through the USB with the SATA cable and try it that way. To this point I've left the source disk in the computer and cloned to the external drive; it worked that way for my laptop.
If this fails then I'll try creating a disk image and recovering it to the new SSD.
Just about time to go look for some other software.
I've tried everything that I can think of to get the clone to work, moved the drives around, used the installed software, used the bootable media disk. Tried to backup and restore and that didn't work either.
The latest thing I tried was to use the True Image HD 2014 licence that came with the new Crucial SSD. Downloaded the software and tried to install it, but it wouldn't do that unless I uninstalled 2013. When to use the uninstaller in the Acronis folder and it said that it couldn't find any True Image components. Tried to uninstall from Control panel and same message. Used another uninstaller that could find the files and installed everything I could find; rebooted and 2014 still get the same error. Tried to use a registry cleaner that found a couple Acronis related entries, but that didn't work either.
I'll try the uninstaller utility from the Acronis site and see if that works.
Success!
After using the uninstaller utility to get rid of the leftover pieces of 2013, the True Image HD 2014 loaded fine. Used the short key that came with the drive to get the full key and I was up and running. A little under 10 minutes to clone the SSD; swapped the new drive for the old one and the computer booted up with no apparent problems. Everything I've checked so far has worked.
I guess I could have saved myself a lot of grief if I had gone straight to the new software. All the information I needed to get over the various issues was available on the Acronis site after a bit of digging, so good on 'em for that.
Thanks to Enchantech for the assistance.