Problem trying to clone Samsung 850 Pro 256 GB SSD
I'm trying to clone a new Samsung 850 PRO SSD, 256 GB drive.
The origianl drive ia for a Windows Seerver 2011.
I created the Acronis boot CD Disk.
I Booted the system with only the old system drive attached and the new SSD drive, booting from the Acronis boot CD Disk I created.
The program sees both drive and acts like it will make the clone, but then fails with the message "Clone Disk Failed" When I look at the SSD drive it only created the small 100MB partition. I have tired in 2 different computers with the same results.
Yesterday I did make a clone from the same server drive to a Lenovo 128 GB SSD Drive (It is realy a Samsung SSD) but it is too small. It only had 9 GB left after clone, but the drive does boot and worked.
I also tried to clone the new Lenovo 128 GB SSD Server system boot disk to the new Samsung 256 GB SSD. I had the same failure.
I put the new 256 GB SSD as an extra drive in another computer, I xcan write informaiton to both partitions. Acronis created the 100 MB partiton and wrote system files to it. The rest of the drive was partitioned but not formatted. I formatted it and have written data to it.
I really need to be able to clone this new Samsung drive to use as the system drive in this server but can't seem to get it to clone.
I did successfully clone the Windows 7 System drive in my workstation. It is a 1 TB Samsung SSD but not the Pro Version, cloned from the standard mechanical System Drive.
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks!


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This is all being done using the Acronis Boot CD to do the clone.
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HVF, have you tried doing a straight-forward Backup and Recovery instead of trying to clone to the Samsung 256GB SSD?
Start by making a backup of the source drive to an external backup drive and verify that this is successfully created.
Next, replace the source drive with your Samsung SSD and then boot from the Rescue Media CD with the backup drive also connected and check that you can see both the SSD and the backup drive from the Acronis application.
Choose your backup image on the external drive and the SSD as the target, and pick to restore the entire disk drive. You can choose whether to allow Acronis to automatically resize partitions if the SSD is larger than the source drive, or to leave the sizes as they are and resize later using a Partition tool.
Backup and Recovery is a valid alternative to using cloning, plus has the advantage that the original source drive is not involved in the recovery operation, so is safe from any error etc.
The other key point is that the Acronis Rescue media should be started in the same boot mode as your Windows OS, i.e. if Windows starts using the EFI bootloader, so do the same for the rescue media. See webpage: Check if your PC uses UEFI or BIOS
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Some SSD drives insist on being attached to SATA data port 0 or 1, you might insure the SSD is attached to the lowest number data port available on the board and try again.
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