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Clone two external HDD

Hi,

 

i took the harddisc from my other laptop and want to clone that one on another external HDD - all from my workstation (so 2 external hdds on my workstation. one hdd from the laptop to clone and one new hdd). i chose the drives to copy and did the job - all fine.

i booted from the new disk on my workstation - all fine, everything worked properly.

then i put the new hdd in the laptop and wanted to start it. booting did not work.

so obviously the "system" partition of the hdd to clone was not cloned? how to manage that issue?

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Thats the hdd i want to clone...

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Max, just looking at the screen image for your disk drives, your workstation looks to be UEFI whereas the drive from your laptop looks to be Legacy / MBR, so you would need to be careful to ensure that you do not clone the laptop drive and convert this from MBR to GPT in the process!

Ideally you should clone the drive on the system where it came from, i.e. the laptop and ensure that the Acronis bootable media is booted in the same BIOS mode as used by Windows on that system.

Hey!

Thank you very much for your help :)
Actually I want to clone a server 2012 laptop. my workstation is a windows 10 computer. how would you do that?? i allready tried to boot the acronis rescue disc on my server laptop, but that didn't work either.
should i download acronis to the server laptop and do the cloning that way?

 

Thanks again for your help!

 

BR

Max

Actually I want to clone a server 2012 laptop. my workstation is a windows 10 computer. how would you do that?? i allready tried to boot the acronis rescue disc on my server laptop, but that didn't work either.
should i download acronis to the server laptop and do the cloning that way?

Max, you may want to consider using Backup & Recovery rather than using cloning for this scenario.  I would suggest making a full disk backup by using the Acronis rescue media to boot from on the server laptop, storing the backup on an external drive.

Once you have created the backup, remove the laptop drive and replace by the new drive you were wanting to clone to, then repeat the boot with the Acronis rescue media and recover the full disk backup to the new drive. 

Doing the above is much safer as your original drive is disconnected and away from any errors, plus there should be very little risk of converting the drive to a different partition method, as there is when using a different computer.