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WD True Edition Cloning problem, "Failed to move selected data...

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Bought a new WD 2T SATA. Moving from 500G to 2T drive, so that the 2T becomes my new C drive. The new 2T installed, partitioned, and formatted fine. Using the Cloning sw, I get this error: "Failed to move selected data. Make sure that your new drive is not smaller than your old one and your partitions do not contain errors..."

I ran chkdsk /r on the new drive -- no errors. Suggestions how to successfully clone?

Details: C drive: 2 partitions: 55MB FAT (legacy EISA), and 465GB NTFS (OS etc..), 8% free (why I need to get this moved!!).
New 2T: 1 partition, NTFS

XP Pro SP3
Acronis True Image WD Version

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Curtis,

You might need to contact WD support as there are some differences between the product under the Acronis banner and that under the WD one.

IIRC the WD one is based on TI 2009, I'm wondering if it understands 2TB size drives.

As far as I'm aware Acronis don't support this version but WD do.

Are you trying to do this from within Windows or from the Rescue CD?

Somethings to try:

Reverse clone - have the old drive in an external caddy and the new drive in the PC - use the rescue CD to clone. Make sure you do not tick the wipe original drive - as then you'll have a major problem!!!

Another option - in Windows, can WD TI see both drives? If so, you could try, making a new partition of about 500GB - name it original or some such. Now make an image of your old drive storing it in this new partition - validate it, mount it just to make sure, then, using the rescue CD  recover the image back to your drive as a partition- leaving partition sizing as is for the moment - this will keep your new partition you just made on the drive and restore your other partitions.

If you feel confident, you could resize your C:\ partition so you don't have to fiddle with it later during the restoration process.

If you go this route tick the restore MBR and track 0 option, otherwise XP may not boot the first time you try. This can easily be fixed if you have access to an XP installation CD, however this would cause you to lose all your updates and service packs that aren't included on the CD, so that would be a last resort.