Can I Clone One External Drive To Another External Drive?
When I try, True Image Echo Workstation hangs at "23 seconds remaining" or similar time. I've tried from within Windows as well as from the Acronis Boot CD. The drives are identical USB drives, ~ 400GB data on the source drive...
What build of Echo Workstation are you using?
Are you plugging the USB drives directly into the computer's rear USB ports?
Is the cloned drive actually finished even though Echo hangs? Are all of the source files present on the destination drive?
If you're cloning a bootable drive, does the clone boot?
The build is:
Acronis® True Image Echo Workstation® with Acronis Universal Restore® (build 8,206)
Plugging both drives directly into Inspiron 1525's USB ports -- there are two on each side, using one of each.
Best I can tell the source files are NOT present on the destination drive; and when I look at it in Disk Director it says Unallocated Space (where previously it was a single primary partition, just like the source drive).
Source drive is not a bootable drive; contains data, mainly TI backup images.
Any more thoughts?
Do you have the same problem if you try to clone a different (perhaps smaller) USB drive to the same destination USB drive?
Instead of cloning, try making an Image then restoring that Image to the destination drive.
Hi - OK, I was just able to successfully clone a smaller (160GB) external USB drive to my 1TB destination drive. The drive had just two small files on it; the cloning took just a few minutes. However, I did notice, the process appeared to hang with "1 second remaining", but I then noticed the upper status bar indicator was slowly filling up to completion... after about 2 or three minutes (with the lower still indicating "1 second remaining"), it did finally finish, and then the operation completed successfully.
When I am trying to clone my 1TB external USB source drive to identical 1TB external USB destination drive, perhaps I need to wait longer, after it appears to hang up with "43 seconds remaining" showing...
Michael:
That sounds plausible. Cloning should work, but since your source drive contains only data, why clone? Wouldn't it be simpler to just copy/paste the TI backup images from the source drive to the destination drive?
I guess I thought cloning would be the fastest way; it's about 521GB data on the source drive... I initially tried dragging the folders from source to destination, but it looked like it was taking far too long (I didn't know how long to expect that to take...)
A free program that I've used recently to move large files to an external USB Drive is called, "Fast Copy". Look here: http://ipmsg.org/tools/fastcopy.html.en
Copying seems to be a Start - Stop - Start process. But this program at least lets you know there is still life in the process. Just don't give up too soon.