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I am working on copying an encrypted external HDD to another external HDD.  Neither disk is or will be used as a boot/OS drive, both are for data storage.

The source drive is a 1TB Seagate Backup Plus Slim, filled to max capacity of 931.51GB, and is encrypted with Check Point Endpoint Security Media Encryption.  Target drive is an identical 1TB Seagate Backup Plus Slim.

Source drive is formatted as FAT32, target drive is formatted as exFAT.

When following the cloning steps, I reach the "What to exclude" section, and receive the following error message:

"You need another 0 bytes of free disk space available on the target hard drive to complete the operation with the current filter.  Please exclude more files or folders, then try again."

The source HDD in question is part on an ongoing legal case, and the clone is being created as part of the discovery process.  Thus, nothing can be excluded from the clone HDD, and nothing can be removed from the source HDD.

Is there some setting or formatting option that I am simply overlooking, or is the solution as simple as purchasing a larger HDD as the target?  Or, is the fact that the source is encrypted with Check Point causing the error?

Any help or advice would be appreciated.

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Acronis does not support cloning or backing up an offline encrypted disk.  you can only backup an ecrypted disk while it is unlocked (while Windows is running).  When restoring such an image, it will restore as unencrypted, but then should encrypt itself automatically (depending on your encryption method).

1734: Acronis Backup: Compatibility with Windows BitLocker

56619: Acronis True Image: Compatibility with BitLocker

 

I'm not sure if you're doing this all from Windows or offline though. 

If you need a true clone because of your discovery process - I would suggest a hardware cloner in this case.  They are bit for bit clones at the physical level and can clone an encrypted drive.  They can be used without a computer as well since the clone is at the harddware level and happens direclty in the cloning dock.  Just make sure 1) you get the source and the destination correct - there's no going back if you reverse them.  2) Your secondary drive (the one that will be a clone) needs be the same size or larger than the original since it's a sector by sector backup. 

This is the one I use at home and for simple physical clones at work:

https://www.amazon.com/Inateck-Dual-Bay-Function-Tool-Free-FD2002/dp/B00N1KXE9K/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1486496931&sr=8-3&keywords=hard+drive+cloner