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Problem using Acronis 2018 to clone 2 USB connected drives

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Using Acronis 2018 to clone 2 USB connected drives.  OS Windows 10 Pro 64

Source drive WD 1 TB (less than 300 GB data) is in a Sabrent docking station connected with USB 3.0.

Target drive is WD 500 GB SSD connected through a Cool Max powered adapter and USB 2.0. Disk Volume is noted in Disk Management as “Unallocated”

Both drives are seen in Disk Management.

I set the 500 GB SSD with Disk Management to simple volume formatted with NTFS

Acronis Clone Disk saw both drives and using manual settings I selected the 1 TB source disk and the 500 GB target disk.  Selected proceed (noted that all data on target drive would be lost and that the size of the source volume would be reduced).

Did this twice – first time with the source drive (the active OS) in the running computer with the SSD connected via SATA.  Nothing.  After that I pulled the OS drive and used the set up above.  Let run all night and nothing; except the SSD is showing unallocated space (remember I had formatted it NTFS)

https://kb.acronis.com/content/59335

Ran MVP Log file:

3/24/2019 9:14:22 PM: Operation Clone Disk (1) started.
3/24/2019 9:14:22 PM: Operation description: Clone Disk 1. Clearing disk Hard disk: 8
2. Clearing disk Hard disk: 8
3. Copying partition Hard disk: 7 -> 8 Drive letter: G: -> H: File system: NTFS Volume label: CW-XP2-C Size: 931.0 GB -> 465.3 GB
4. Copying partition Hard disk: 7 -> 8 Drive letter: - File system: NTFS Volume label: Size: 501 MB -> 494.2 MB
5. Copying MBR Hard disk: 7 -> 8
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3/24/2019 9:15:01 PM: Pending operation 52 started: 'Clearing disk'.
3/24/2019 9:15:01 PM: Pending operation 52 started: 'Clearing disk'.
3/24/2019 9:15:01 PM: Pending operation 14 started: 'Copying partition'.
3/24/2019 9:17:36 PM: Error 0x101f6: A format/resize error.
3/24/2019 9:17:36 PM: Pending operation 14 started: 'Copying partition'.
3/24/2019 9:17:36 PM: Error 0x101f6: A format/resize error.
3/24/2019 9:17:36 PM: Pending operation 61 started: 'Copying MBR'.
3/24/2019 9:17:42 PM: Error 0x13c0005: Operation has completed with errors.

Start: 3/24/2019 9:14:22 PM
Stop: 3/24/2019 9:17:42 PM
Total Time: 00:03:20

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John, this looks like there are filesystem issues on your source HDD drive and you should run CHKDSK /R against all partitions on the drive before attempting the clone again.

1. Clearing disk Hard disk: 8
2. Clearing disk Hard disk: 8
3. Copying partition Hard disk: 7 -> 8 Drive letter: G: -> H: File system: NTFS Volume label: CW-XP2-C Size: 931.0 GB -> 465.3 GB
4. Copying partition Hard disk: 7 -> 8 Drive letter: - File system: NTFS Volume label: Size: 501 MB -> 494.2 MB
5. Copying MBR Hard disk: 7 -> 8
.
1.  >> 3/24/2019 9:15:01 PM: Pending operation 52 started: 'Clearing disk'.
2.  >> 3/24/2019 9:15:01 PM: Pending operation 52 started: 'Clearing disk'.
3.  >> 3/24/2019 9:15:01 PM: Pending operation 14 started: 'Copying partition'.
          3/24/2019 9:17:36 PM: Error 0x101f6: A format/resize error.
4.  >> 3/24/2019 9:17:36 PM: Pending operation 14 started: 'Copying partition'.
          3/24/2019 9:17:36 PM: Error 0x101f6: A format/resize error.
5.  >> 3/24/2019 9:17:36 PM: Pending operation 61 started: 'Copying MBR'.
          3/24/2019 9:17:42 PM: Error 0x13c0005:

The format/resize error is occurring when Acronis clone is attempting to shrink the size of your large partition and a recovery partition (based on size of the latter).

I would recommend trying to shrink the 931GB partition using either Windows Disk Management or else by using a partition tool such as MiniTool Partition Wizard - see if this can be done without errors?