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True Image 2021 Cloning

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Hi, I need your help. I´m trying to clone my 1TB HDD to my new 240GB SSD. The HDD is almost empty (only have 59GB occupied). The process went fine until the last windows. The program is stuck for more than 4 hours in the window that say "Cloning disc...." Remaining time: less than 1 minute. 

The message is confusing me because it says "less than 1 minute", but I´m waiting more than 4 hours.

Is this a known problem? There is anything that I can do to resolve this?

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Antero, welcome to these public User Forums.

The clone operation should not be 'stuck' as you describe for over 4 hours so has either been successful or has failed!  The only way to tell would be to shutdown the PC, remove the 1TB HDD and replace it by your new 240GB SSD and see if this will boot successfully into your Windows OS?

Beyond this point, then much more information will be needed to offer further help...

Please see KB 56634: Acronis True Image: how to clone a disk - and review the step by step guide given there.

Note: the first section of the above KB document directs laptop users to KB 2931: How to clone a laptop hard drive - and has the following paragraph:

It is recommended to put the new drive in the laptop first, and connect the old drive via USB. Otherwise you will may not be able to boot from the new cloned drive, as Acronis True Image will apply a bootability fix to the new disk and adjust the boot settings of the target drive to boot from USB. If the new disk is inside the laptop, the boot settings will be automatically adjusted to boot from internal disk. As such, hard disk bays cannot be used for target disks. For example, if you have a target hard disk (i.e. the new disk to which you clone, and from which you intend to boot the machine) in a bay, and not physically inside the laptop, the target hard disk will be unbootable after the cloning.

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

KB 65508: Acronis True Image 2021: how to create bootable media and
KB 59877: Acronis True Image: how to distinguish between UEFI and Legacy BIOS boot modes of Acronis Bootable Media