Clone of Hard Drive crashed resulted with creation of a dump file
I was going to clone a hard drive to a larger drive. When I hit the Clone button an other screen popped up then the screen went black and created a dump file then asked fo r a flash drive to be inserted. I tryed to upload the zip file that was created but I am guessing it was too large.
Any ideaas?
Thanks
Ron


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Yes, we definitely discourage cloning from within Windows. Before doing the clone using the rescue media create a full backup of you system disk (in case something goes wrong). It is good practice to create a full backup of you system HDD/SSD before doing a major update to Windows or a Clone.
Ian
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Sorry - I booted from a bootable rescue CD that i created with Acronis!
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Well, if that is the case, you booted to a flash drive, selected clone, and then you got black screen as you say, then for some reason the selection of clone triggered a System Report generation rather than initiating the clone process. I must say this is a first for me here. Never seen a report like that here on the Forum.
Can you duplicate this problem? If the problem is reproducable then I would say you have 2 options, 1 is to create the bootable media anew and try again as you might just have corrupted media and/or, open a support case for the issue.
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Ron, which version of the Rescue Media did you try using? I would suspect that this is the standard, Linux based media and from the description of seeing a black screen, it sounds like your system doesn't like booting into a Linux environment - I have seen this on some UEFI systems where Secure Boot is enabled and the rescue media doesn't find any disk drives and may then offer the option to create a System Report which gets stored on USB.
I would recommend creating the Windows PE version of the Rescue Media - this will require that you must download the Windows 10 ADK software to facilitate the WinPE environment. See post: 127281: MVP Tool - CUSTOM ATI WINPE BUILDER for a tool created by the MVP community to help make the WinPE media on USB stick much more simpler to create.
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