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Clone disk actually made two clones at once using for second clone unexpected device. Data loss.

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I had (C:) Intel SSD 120GB and (D:) Seagate Barracuda HDD 300GB.

Don't know if this important, but I used hard links from C: to D: because lack of dick space for some software in "C:\Program Files (x86)".

I bought new SSD 250GB with Acronis TrueImage HD 2014 certificate.

Then I installed TrueImage and activated it. TrueImage was activated as English, I know Russian much better, but any way I forced to English support forum.

I run clone disk from old system SSD to new one.

After cloning process PC was turned off, I removed old SSD and start the PC. After windows loaded I found terrible thing. System has two drive:
* C: one partition 250 GB with the system
* D: first partition 120 GB with the same system and second partition 170 GB unformatted
Looks like I have two copy of my old system SSD disk. But I tell you, I didn't ask Acronis do two clones for me.
In the end I've loss all my data from D: disk. Of course I have some backup but I want to know why TrueImage act in such way.

I hope for the answer.

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Greetings,
Drive letter assignments change in the recovery environment. Therefore its possible that you selected the wrong disk, or destination for your clone. This is the only explanation for your data loss. Your other steps sound correct, but when cloning, it may be safer to disconnect all disks, except for the ones you are working with. Hope this helps.

The problem is not in the wrong destination because I run Acronis once and received two copy of the original disk. Repeat, in the end I have three device with identical data. This isn't nominal function because you can't chose two disks as destination.

> but when cloning, it may be safer to disconnect all disks
Yeah, this good idea but I thought: 'what can be wrong?"