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Acronis creates partitions where not existed on the cloned drive

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Just purchased an 8 Tb My Book and cloned my C drive containing 1.1 Tb of data,that does not have partitions.  Twice the Acronis 2016 created partitions that is leaving only 2 Tb available.  When I use the identical Acronis and use a different brand of external drive, the clone is perfect.  What am I doing wrong?

Thank you,

Bruce

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It sounds like the C:drive is a 32 bit system disk.  32 bt OS can only work on partitons of 2TB or less so True Image creates the partitions so that the disk is bootable.

Bruce, can I ask you to clarify exactly what you are trying to do here please?

In my understanding, your 8TB My Book is an external WD drive intended to be used as a backup device and as such is not suitable for using as a target drive for cloning your Windows C:\ partition.

Is there a misunderstanding here about the term 'cloning'?  
Are you using the Acronis Clone Wizard / Utility to try to create an identical copy of your Windows OS drive on your 8TB My Book drive?

Or are you making an Acronis backup image of your Windows C: partition on the WD My Book drive?

Please see KB document: 56634: Acronis True Image 2016: Cloning Disks for more detailed information on Cloning drives where ideally the recommended method is to install the clone target drive in place of the source Windows drive in your computer.  Can you physically install your 8TB My Book drive in your computer in place of your current Drive C: ?

I'm not sure why you would clone an internal drive to an external drive that can only be external drive - You'll never be able to boot from that clone as 1) that is as strictly external drive (not meant to be opened up) and 2) it uses RAID anyway so even if you did open it up, you couldn't take a drive out and put it in your comupter and have it boot.

In this case, instead of a clone, you should be taking a full disk backup of your primary drive and saving the backup (not a clone) on your 8TB external drive.

Here are some great video tutorials.  Check out #01 on the unofficial video links which explains and shows how to set these up

https://forum.acronis.com/forum/117004