"Clone disk operation failed" after years of no touble.
I have been using True Image 2016 for several years with Win 10, cloning to two drives. The software is not on my PC, and I use the DVD boot disk method without ever having any trouble before. My spare SATA cables rest on the bottom of the PC, and I open the panel, connect my target drives one at a time, and boot off the DVD. Months ago I cloned a new SSD without a hitch and it is now my main C drive. Again all monthly clone operations have gone smoothly on my 2 larger SATA backup drives since that installation .
My procedure in the blue bios boot screen is choosing SATA 3 (my dvd), choose True Image Home, Tools/Utilities, Clone Disk, Manual, Disk 1 to Disk 2, Proportional, Shutdown PC when completed.
Now all goes well as usual, until about 2 mins in I get the error. I get this error attempting to clone both of my back up drives.
Since my last clone operation, I have removed the original SATA3 dvd drive (it had been not working for a few years), and moved my extra LG BluRay DVD drive (was SATA 4) up into its place. DVD drive has worked as usual after the move, and it shows to be D Drive (SATA 3).


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Steve, thanks so much for the quick reply. With the stock market going crazy and me wanting to get back to monitoring it, I missed the log option. I went back and tried again, and when failed, the log said on lines 6 & 7, MFT bitmap corrupted. Following that hint, I ran scan disk and then chkdsk both on my source SSD drive. Afterwards, I was able to clone to both of my SATA drives!
My Kingston SSD Health software indicates 98% good, and that is what it was about a month after purchase, for the last 6 months. So we hope whatever bugged it won't comeback for awhile.
thanks again, chester
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Glad to hear this is fixed Chester, thanks for the feedback.
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