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Removable disks may not have started at the moment

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Trying to clone a 256GB M.2 GPT disk to 256GB SSD GPT.  When I reboot and Acronis starts, a minute passes and this error pops up: "One of more of your removable disks may not have started at the moment.  Click YES to wait for full startup of the devices....." I click YES to wait but the message pops up again after a minute.  I click NO or CANCEL and system reboots.....cannot get a clone disk.

I have tried the SSD on SATA, and on USB, same popup. 

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Hello Ray,

Thank you for your posting! Could you please try cloning your disk under the bootable media, is it successfull? Does the backup of the same data to the same target location work?

Thank you in advance!

Ray,

I believe your problem is caused by the M.2 drive not being recognized by the Linux version after reboot.  Suggest you do a search on M.2 and you can read about the issues with M.2.

There are 2 ways to proceed.  You can create a WinPE rescue disk and add the drivers for the M.2 drive.  Or your could perform a disk mode backup of the M.2 drive and restore that image to the SSD.  To create the backup, you would use Disks & Partitions, select the full partition list, then select the drive, which should select all partitions.  Picture 1 below shows the short partition list and picture 2 shows the full partition list...use the full partition list.

Performing a backup & restore in this manner is equivalent to a clone.  Many of the MVPs do not perform clones.  They use this backup & restore method.  Note, the backup must be saved to another drive, not the SSD.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

FtrPilot

 

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