Acronis True Image 2016 - Tools/Clone Disk no progress...
Have latest update of Acronis True Image 2016 installed.
Using the Tools/Clone Disk function.
Trying to clone disk from HP 360 laptop with Windows 10.
Source is a 1TB drive with almost 400GB of data.
Destination is a 1TB drive connected to system via USB3.
After over 3 hours Estimated Time Left is still blank (i.e. 0% complete).
Never had this issue with Acronis Home/Acronis Disk Director
I am trying to clone my hard drive using Acronis 2015.
I have Windows 10, have an Intel I7 processor with 12gb of ram. My original hard drive is 1TB. I am trying to clone it to a 2TB drive. I have the latest Acronis build 6613. I have both drives installed in the PC. Everything goes well until it reboots to begin the clone. It reboots and I see on the left top corner of the screen "Acronis loading". Then the screen goes black and nothing else happens. In disk management there is 100mb of data with a partition. I have tried the process by leaving the partition in place and formatting the drive and starting over. On the first attempt, I let it run about 3 hours with the black screen. It only had the 100mb of data with a partition, so I know when the screen goes black it isn't doing anything. After each episode of this, I have to force a shutdown as no key functions. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.
Fortsand,
you should not attempt to clone your Windows drive using the Windows installed program. You risk corruption to the boot partition in doing so. You should create Recovery Media using the Media Builder tool found in the tools section (tools icon) in the GUI. you can create media on CD/DVD or USB. I recommend USB thumb or pen drive. Once created restart your PC with the Recovery Media attached and boot to it. This may require that you enter the machine bios first and make the Recovery Media medium first in the boot order list. Once booted you can then use the application to perform the desired task.
Thank you for your response. I had previously made the Acronis rescue cd. I have not been into a bios but a very few times. Last night I was trying to boot from the CD, but my bios is a little different from any others I have seen on Youtube. It is an AS Rock. When I select the cd-rom as the 1st boot priority, I hit escape to bring up a small screen that says "Discard changes and exit" and there is a yes or no. I don't want to discard changes, so I select no. When I select no, the screen just drops off and nothing happens. If I select yes, it goes ahead and boots from the hard drive. So I am missing something in getting it to accept my changes. Thanks.
In addition ot Enchantec's excellent advise... (please always start the clone using your offline bootable recovery media. Starting in Windows will change your OS bootloader and if it fails to boot to Acronis properly, then you may end up with an unbootable system. Using your recovery media to start with the process avoids this possibility and is the safe way to go.)
... 2015 v6613 did bring support for Windows 10 specifically for the 1st itteration of it. Since then though, Windows 10 has had a major revision (like a Service Pack, but acutally the upgrade was a lot more like going from Windows 7 to 8 or a similar OS upgrade). As Microsoft is currenlty planning on keeping Windows 10 as the last version of Windows, this is less clear now since the name is not changing. I would suspect (and hope) that 2015 still fully works with the current and future releases of Windows 10, but there is more risk that it won't as Microsoft updates Windows 10 with new major releases. Overtime, some of the in-Windows Acronis 2015 application features, may not work as well (again, I am only speculating though and hope that is not the case though).
Once you make your change in the system bios so that your recovery media is listed first can you scroll the screen further down and reveal a list of all bootable devices in your system? If you can select the recovery media from that list and it should boot to it. Please indicate your motherboard model.
Okay, I was finally able to get my machine booted from the Acronis Rescue Boot. Now, the clone operation went okay until it got to the very end, then a small screen popped up that it was "unable to write to some sectors", so all I could do was cancel out or ignore. I must have ignored 20 or so of those small screens. After the operation was finished, I installed the hard drive into my C:\ drive spot and it booted just like the orginal drive. When I checked the properties, there is about 400GB less data on this drive than the original drive. I have not been able to locate anything missing yet. All the programs that I have checked seem okay. I did that clone with the target hard drive installed in a PC slot. I wasn't satisfied with the missing data so I formatted the drive and installed it in an external drive case. I also did a scan on it before beginning the clone operation. Doing it in the external drive case took a LOT longer than the first clone. I still came out with the same result as the first clone. I got the same "unable to write to some sectors" as the first clone. So, at this point, I don't know if I am good to go. I need some guidance on what I should do next. Thanks.
Well, I would use the cloned disk for awhile, you be the judge of how long, run all your programs if possible, view your photos, play your music, watch your videos, in general give things a good work out. If all seems good I would think you are in good shape. I cannot speak for the 400GB difference here. It seems to be a large amount of data but possibly there was no data there to begin with. Once you are confident you have lost nothing however I would not be concerned with the cloned drive being OK. You can keep your old disk as is in case at some pont you discover that you are missing something.