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Acronis True Image 2020 Fails to Clone Windows 10 to Spare Hard Drive

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Help!

I have been trying to Clone my Master PC image over to Spare Hard Drive to clone the rest of my PCs off of.  The process I have used in the past worked on the my last set and other PCs as well. 

Here is what I am doing:

1.  I boot to Acronis off of flash drive

2.  Choose Tools & Utilities

3.  Choose Automatic

4. Choose my Source Disk as my internal SSD

5.  Choose my Destination Disk as my SSD connected USB (Tried 3 different drives)

6.  Verify all is correct on last page, click Proceed.

7.  It starts like normally does but then it fails after Step 5 "Copying & Merging Partitions"

Here is a pic of my log

Please help I would love to be able to clone all my pcs Im getting. It will def save me some time!

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Jeremy, welcome to these public User Forums.

Sorry but the picture of the log is difficult to read and doesn't provide sufficient detail to say why exactly the errors shown are happening?

When you are looking at the logs in the rescue environment, right-click on the top line (showing the Clone Disk (Date / time) ) and use the option to Save the log to your USB flash drive so that the full log information is captured, and is a whole lot easier to read.

The key errors reported are format/resize and invalid format errors per your image.  The former normally indicates that a partition on the source disk drive cannot be resized for some reason.  The latter 'invalid format' is one that I haven't seen before, so need more information.

If you have ATI 2020 installed on your PC you are cloning the drive from, then you can try doing the clone from within Windows using Acronis Active Clone. 

Note: it is always highly recommended that you have a full disk backup of your OS drive before doing any cloning operation!

KB 61665: Acronis True Image 2019, 2020 and 2021: Active Cloning in Windows

Jeremy,

Did your spare drive have data on it when you attempted the clone?  If yes I suggest that you use Windows diskpart clean command to clear the disk of all data and formatting prior to running the clone.