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Clone disk copies partitions from wrong disk

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Look at the enclosed screenshots. I try to clone my second disk (the data disk in my system).

But after I have selected that and an identical external disk it shows the wrong partitions.

I actually went a head last time I tried this and then the external disk after the cloning contain some partitons from my first disk (the OS disk) and some (but not all) from the 2nd (data disk).

Why does it mess up this?  Should be so easy.  Identical disk. Just make a copy.
Instead it includes data/partitions from a disk I haven't even selected :-(

PS!   A earlier cloned my system disk to an external, and that went as it should.
Trouble is with the 2nd disk.

Of course I could disconnect the system drive and start Clone from a bootable CD.
But that seems very complicated just for doing a simple copy of a disk :-(

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Lars-Erik, the core issue here looks to be that ATI 2016 wants to try to make your target disk for the clone bootable as an OS disk, not as a Data disk, hence it is wanting to create the small EFI? partition at the start of the target drive.

This is just one reason why doing cloning from within Windows is not such a good idea!

Please see forum topic: [IMPORTANT] CLONING - How NOT to do this - for more reasons for not using cloning in this way!

My recommendation here would be to use Backup & Recovery to achieve the end result you want from cloning, but obviously this will require a third disk to store the backup image of the source Data disk.

You could try doing this by booting from the ATI 2016 Rescue Media but I cannot guarantee that you would not see the same issue.  It has been a few years now since I used ATI 2016 and I don't have it installed anymore.

Another option would be to take advantage of any upgrade discount offers for the latest ATI 2019 where Acronis have introduced Active Cloning (from the 2018 version on) where the Microsoft VSS snapshot method is used (as used by ATI for making Backup images of Windows OS drives), but where you would also have access to Acronis Support should the issue continue.