Cloning to a HYBRID SSD
I want to clone a HD from a Dell Dimension 9200 to a Hybrid SSD.
Will this work and are there any potential issues cloning to a Hybrid which I should be aware of.?
Thanks for your help.


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Can I clone a Hitachi Hybrid drive to a new ssd using Acronis true image HD 2015?
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Ringo,
To perform a clone you must use the bootable recovery media. If that media recognizes the source (Hitachi) drive as a single drive then yes, you can clone it successfully. Make certain you are familiar with the clone procedure as outlined in the documentation to avoid problems.
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The True image 2015 shows it has two drive.. Drive 1 is my Hitachi HT drive with 465.GB capacity and then a Drive 2 showing Scandisk with 22.37GB.
What do I do?
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I am guessing here as you are not providing much information. The size and name of disk 2, Scandisk 22.37GB suggests that drive 2 is the drive that you are booting from to the Recovery Media. You are booted to Recovery Media correct?
In general, you would select drive 1 as the source disk, select next and choose the clone mode, select next and choose the destination disk (your SSD). Once the clone starts to run select the Shutdown computer when complete option. After the PC shutsdown, disconnect source drive 1 and connect new SSD drive to the disconnected cables from drive 1 then, restart machine.
If you have not read the documentation on cloning and/or cannot follow the procedures outlined there then you are at risk of making your system unbootable in proceeding with the clone tool. Be advised that going forward is at your own risk.
As a safeguard before cloning I strongly recommend that you make a full disk backup of your current drive to a secondary drive so that if you are unsuccessful at creating the cloned drive you have something to fall back on.
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I haven't used a hybrid drive in quite some time - I was not impressed with the performance and found the limited caching size to be a bottleneck in realworld use - that's just me though.
I only mention I haven't a hyrid drive in awhile, because I can't remember if cloning actually works on them. Doing a full backup and restore is no problem, but not sure about cloning. The documentation hasn'tb been updated in 2016, but 2015 specifically stated that cloning was not possible on a hybrid drive... I'm assuming that was due to the hybrid solution of having a physical SSD for caching and a second spinning drive for the data as most hybrid driveds today still show up as a single drive in the bios.
This is the older 2015 KB article: https://kb.acronis.com/content/45886
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I just discovered more information about my Asus UX32VD. Actually it only has a SATA 3 500GB Hitachi HD but Asus have used a standalone Sandisk i100 SSD soldered on the mainboard as the cache in the ASUS UX32VD rather than an integrated SSD/hard drive. So my thought is now I will just use the Acronis true image HD to clone the Hitachi HD over and ignore the I100 ssd.. What do you guys think
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Yes, that's exactly what you need/want to do. Another user just had this exact same issue... start from here and read to the end:
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/101550#comment-374891
With your hardware setup, take a full backup of the disk first - not a clone (just in case - safety net) to start with
Then run the Microsoft fix it tool in Windows, which will allow you to switch from RAID to AHCI in the BIOS and still be able to boot into the OS after that. When it prompts you to reboot, shutdown completely.
Go into the bios and disable Intel SRT. Then change the bios mode from RAID to AHCI.
Now attempt to boot back into the OS - hopefully it works. You may have to reboot another time for the AHCI driver to finish insalling completely.
If all is booting OK, now yoiu can clonse from the old spinner to the new SSD (or better yet, if you have the space, do another full backup and restore to the SSD if you have any issues with cloning - I prefer the backup and restore method as you have that backup to fall back on in case anything goes south with the clone)
Plus, if you heed my advice, you have an image to revert to to go back to original settings, and one right after the SATA mode was changed as well so you have recovery options in case things go bad at any point in time.
Some extra notes:
1) Always start your clone or your full disk restore with your offline bootable recoery media. Don't start it from within Windows as it modifies the bootloader to go into Acronis and this could cause trouble getting back into Windows if Acronsi doesn't launch for some reason. This will never happen if you use your offline recovery media instead.
2) For reocoveries, always try to boot your bootable recovery media in the same method as the OS was originally installed as (UEFI mode for a UEFI/GPT OS install or Legacy/Bios mode for an MBR/Bios mode OS install). More info here if you're not sure: https://forum.acronis.com/forum/122101#comment-374851
***EDIT***
3) When all is said and done, you should be able to go into disk management in Windows and format the 100Gb SSD on the board and use it as extra storage for fun. If you have trouble with it, you can use Diskpart >>>> List disk >>>> Select disk X (change x with the number of the correct drive) >>> clean.... then go into Disk manager and initialize the disk, select GPT and format as NTFS and you'll regain the 100GB drive back as storage.
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