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Acronis Clone comment and user manual instructions

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OK, I have the 500g deck of cards size backup drive. When I opened up my laptop the ssd in the computer is not only half the storage capacity but also the size of a postage stamp, so I can't use the directions in the user manual to clone this drive. The laptop does have a bay to put the large drive in with a SATA connector on a ribbon cable. So,I plugged the backup drive into the USB 3.0 port and started the clone software and the computer didn't recognize the backup drive so I opened device manager and more or less forced recognition and initialized the drive. Then back into clone and started the process. Oh, I also made a bootable USB stick and found out in the process that you cannot tell the bios to boot from USB first then the HD. Your only option is the HD. Anyway during the cloning process the clone software disappeared so no updates on the status of the back up. So, I let the computer sit and do its thing for a few hours then unplugged the backup drive and rebooted the computer. Next I will swap out the drives and see if it is winner winner chicken dinner or sorry charlie.

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Hello! 

Please check the following pre-requisites:

Source and target disks must have equal logical sector size. Cloning to a disk with different logical sector size is not supported. E.g., you can clone a 512 bytes/sector disk to 512 bytes/sector disk; you can clone a 4096 bytes/sector disk to 4096 bytes/sector disk; but you cannot clone a disk with logical sector size 512 bytes to disk with logical sector size 4096 bytes.

Source disk volumes can be cloned to the target disk "as is" or resized proportionally. It is possible to clone a larger disk to a smaller one, provided that the smaller hard disk has enough capacity to fit the contents of the larger disk.

It is recommended that your old and new hard drives work in the same controller mode (for example, IDE or AHCI). Otherwise, your computer might not start from the new hard drive.

With regards to the issue, I would firstly request you to go to the links below in order to view the guide to clone drives. Let me know in case of any issues while following the same. 

https://kb.acronis.com/content/56634

https://kb.acronis.com/content/61665

https://kb.acronis.com/content/2931

Please let us know if the issue was resolved after applying those solutions.

Thanks.