cannot clone 600 gig drive to much larger drive
I'm running vista 64 bit; I recently purchased a new drive and a USB 3.0 pci card. My goal is to copy the internal drive onto the external 3.0. When I tried this I got a failure, stating there were target drive errors, plus it said the target drive was too small. I took the steps recommended, including doing a full drive check, outside of windows, that came up perfectly clean - no errors. I know, also, that the target drive is a 2 TB drive, and its empty (although I'm prepared to over-write anything that Acronis thinks is on it...) I formatted the drive again, using NTFS, set the single partition as best I could (I'm novice ),
Can someone please help me? How do I get Acronis to Clone my target drive?
You won't be able to boot from a USB drive. Microsoft makes it very hard.
Instead of a clone, do a disk and partition image backup. YOu will get a TIB files on your USB drive that contains all the information from the sectors of your disk, just like a clone, but packaged in a file.
YOu then use your Acronis recovery CD to restore when needed.
Make sure you create your Acronis CD and try it out. This will make sure it can deal with your hardware, and that you actually can access your backup when you need it.
If the Lenova is a Thinkpad model, for a successful clone, mount the target disk inside the computer--hopefully same connector as old disk--before cloning. Use the CD as recommended by Pat L.
If the computer is not a Thinkpad, mounting the target inside the using computer still offers the best chance of success.
Also suggest you read the gold color link inside my signature below. This is info to supplement the info already provided by Pat L.