Disk clone fail
I have a Dell Optiplex 7050 with a 500Gig Seagate hard drive. Finally got around to buying a 500 Gig WD Black NVMe M.2 drive and installed it in the system. Goal was to clone the Seagate to the WD and then have the WD as the boot and retain the Seagate for mainly storage. I have Acronis 2020 and tried using the Clone tool. I did NOT bother allocating the WD since my impression was that the Acronis software would handle that. Go through the various steps of selecting the source, selecting the target (the new WD) and things proceed with Acronis creating an image. Then I get the screen saying a RESTART needs to be performed or the process will cancel so I let Acronis do the restart.
The first time I did this the computer restarted and I was thinking that at some point Acronis would kick in again and finish the process but this never happened. So I went through the process again and got to the restart step. I did the restart and this time when the system was starting up an Acronis program started before actually getting into Windows but after a few seconds there was some message something like "one or more of my external storage devices has not started . . . " and asks if I want to wait. If I say Yes I get the same message after a few moments. If I choose NO/ignore the program ends.
After going through this a few times I gave up and am using Macrium Reflect to do the cloning which was considerably easier.
But I am curious as to what the problem was with Acronis clone??
Doug


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I guess there was nothing in Acronis indicating that I couldn't do the clone since it is the first item under "Tools". Clicking Clone Disk goes right into the procedure without any warnings or caveats that this might not successfully complete.
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It's been a week now and everything is going fine with the new drive. I have disabled the old Seagate just to make sure the computer doesn't try booting from it but will soon enable and reinitialize to use as storage. One other caveat I just noticed. I generally have System Restore turned on with the last two or three restore points saved. Today I noticed NO restore points and it was because the System Restore was somehow turned off. Not sure if this was a result of the cloning or something else but I turned it back on now and created a restore point. I get very nervous my not having restore points as this feature has saved me in the past a few times.
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Major updates to Windows 10 turn off System Restore. I have a dim recollection that System Restore is one of the default exclusions with Disk and Partition Backups, but that would not explain them being set to off.
Ian
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