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2013 Clone Disk nor Rescue Media Boot disk working

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True Image 2013 Plus Pack
Build: 6514 Sync agent version: 16,0,0,6682 Windows 7 64-bit Home

Situation: Wanting to create a clone of my 64GB SSD onto my new 250GB SSD

Issue: When cloning has commenced, and the systems' restarted, the blue Acronis screen with an window displaying the completion status bar displays for the first 10 seconds. Without the cloning status bar moving at all, my PC shuts down, immediately restarts and loads into Windows again. (IE: cloning attempts to begin, but no progress is ever made)

Action (unsuccessfully) taken: Created a Rescue Media Boot disk, as Forums advised not to run Acronis backup/clone from Windows, but rather straight from the Boot disk. Problem of the boot disk not detecting my wired USB keyboard or mouse(s) I tried plugging into all 8 of my motherboard USB2 and USB3 ports

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated to either this Clone Disk fail and/or Boot disk peripheral detection.

Cheers,
CL

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First, if you are commencing the clone from within Windows, change to starting it from the recovery media instead. This stops Windows interfering with the cloning during the reboot into Linux.

If your PC is a brand name one you could also try a reverse clone, which is where you place the source SSD into the external caddy and then the destination drive into the PC.

Personally I would make a complete disk image and then recover that image to the new drive.

Clone should be used only by advanced users who know what they are doing. It is riskier and can result in a loss of data and a failed system. Create a full disk mode backup and restore it, using the bootable Rescue Media, to the new disk, as it's far safer.

Recovery build 6514 seems to have more problems. Using a Lenovo Ideapad Y400 running Windows 8, the recovery CD booting only after I disable secure boot and enabling legacy boot in the bios, doesn't find the internal drive of the laptop. Selecting the drive/partition to back up shows no drives found. What is interesting is at the bottom of that screen a total image backup size is shown. I selected Next and Trueimage properly showed all the partitions on the laptop drive. The software allowed me to continue with a full backup to a network drive. The resulting image says it is a full backup but is only 1/2 the size shown in the software. I'm hoping that is due to compression. This isn't giving me much confidence in using Trueimage for an archive/recovery solution.

Try newly downloading the Rescue Media ISO (listed as Bootable Media) from your Acronis.com account. The web site lists it as the same build number as previously, but is actually newer build 6528. It fixes the wireless keyboard/mouse issue and the GPT disk issue. The fixes are only in the new build of the Rescue Media, as no new Windows version has been released.

Thanks for your help tuttle, what is the 'full disk mode backup' option? Is that just the disk and partition backup option, where I select a source and destination drive to backup into? I'm assuming once I run the Recovery boot disk from BIOS, it will allow me to select the 'full disk backup' I've created on my new SSD (destination).

I'm trying to clone my C: drive (which contains my Win7 OS) onto my new 250GB SSD due to the convenience factor. But ultimately this is proving far harder than I first envisioned.

Create a full disk mode Backup. Select the checkbox for the entire disk (not just individual partitions). For this option, switch to disk mode (upper right blue link) until you see disks and not partitions to select. Select the disk. That ensures that you have everything you need, and you won't need to understand how the disk is laid out with possible hidden partitions. A full disk mode Backup captures everything, and is the simplest, safest backup method.

Chris wrote:
Problem of the boot disk not detecting my wired USB keyboard or mouse(s) I tried plugging into all 8 of my motherboard USB2 and USB3 ports

What is your status on this problem with the new build 6528?
If still an issue, tell us more about the keyboard and mouse.
Are these connected via usb wire or are you using the mouse port and keyboard port found on the old computers. I am assuming that your computer is a desktop based on the number of connectors. If using usb port, best port to use is the one on the rear if your computer is desktop.

Later Edit:
Review your Win7 disk in Windows Dis Management Graphical view. You need to know how partitions this disk, the partition sequence (which one first) and which partition is marked as "ACT" (active). It would help if you would post a screen capture so the helpers can have an idea of how the larger disk should look.

If you make a disk mode or disk image backup, the link #3 below includes an example 1 of how to restore to a smaller or larger disk. Also, the link #1 below is an index of my examples of cloning and backup/restore.

psternak,
The size of the backup should be approximately 70% (65-75) of the used space.

Review link #2 below for some background on how to create a disk mode or disk image backup.