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Can't clone my win8/wmc

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I am trying to temporarily clone my current win8 Pro x64 with media center add-on to my HDD as my SSD is getting full and I need to save up for a bigger SSD.

I tried using clone disk and it just gives me a generic PC ran into errors message and reboots with same message.

I even tried to clone to my external USB3 HDD with same results.

I then read on the forums the clone feature has some issues, and to use backup and restore.

however, I am currently having the same PC ran into errors message with backup and restore as well.

Any clues to what I can do before my SSD becomes over full?
-=Mark=-
ps. My system specs are:
SuperMicro X9SAE-V (C216)
Xeon E3-1230v2
8GB(2x4GB) Kingston DDR3-1600 ECC Unbuffered
Sapphire Radeon HD 7950
Drives in use.
2 - OCZ 120GB Vertext Agility 3 RAID0 DATA
1 - OCZ 240GB Vertex 3 boot (jmicron 363 non-RAID member)
1 - Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB HDD
1 - Seagate 1TB Backup Plus USB3 External Backup HDD

I included an Acronis report generator report.

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acronissystemreport.zip 3.16 MB
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What are the error messages?

On boot it goes by so fast, but I got a camera and it pretty much says what I already said.

"Your PC ran into problems and needs to restart. We're just collecting some error info, and then we'll restart for you."

As usual, it is making decisions for me and not staying on the screen so I can read it.

same when I reboot, it automatically runs repair without any input from me. This one does however pause for me at the end of the repair only because it finally gives me options to continue.

It does give an log path of:
E:\windows\system32\logfiles\srt\srttrail.txt

This sounds very wrong. Shouldn't it be using the C: drive? Did the restore mislabel my drive letters?

Here's my srttrail.txt attachment. I decided to zip up all of the SRT files as they were all small.

Thanks for any help
-=Mark=-

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Mark,

Are you trying to image from within Windows or from the recovery CD?

I'm unclear, are you getting the error messages when making the image or when restoring it?

Sorry, apparently I still wasn't very clear even in my second post.

The error occurs while booting windows. Acronis seems to be doing everything fine.

Just windows pukes on it. It says drive E:. Not sure why it doesn't say c:.

I get the Win8 logo for a minute or so, then the error occurs.

When it reboots, win8 goes to autorepair and reports the error log is on e: drive. I thought it should say C:?

Mark,

It sounds as though the wrong partition is marked as active on the destination drive.

The Windows 8 automatic repair will not correct this, you will have to manually mark the correct partition active when booted to Windows 8 install media from a command prompt using Diskpart.

That didn't work. I didn't think it would as I've never had this issue before cloning/restoring.

Not sure what else to try. It is strange. I've tried this a half dozen times with the same results.

I think I'll try EaseUS and see what happens.

-=Mark=-

Well, first off, EaseUS had the exact same results.

Now I figure it is a hardware issue.

To explain my problem I must start at the beginning.

The first thing I did was add the pair of 120gb SSDs in RAID0 for data, but my 240GB SSD (my original boot drive) was in AHCI mode and windows 8 wouldn't recognize the drive as RAID at at all, even if I pre-installed the raid software (IRST).

So I buy a Masscool PCIe controller with the JMicron 363 controller chip that claimed AHCI mode, but it only had a RAID mode and was forced to install as a non-raid member.

I then connect my 240GB to the jmicron controller after pre-loading jmicron drivers and all seemed fine. I then enabled RAID0 and set my pair of 128GB SSDs up as the data drive.

I put the 240GB drive back on the on-board controller as a non-member raid as drivers are now working, but it won't boot.

I put the 240GB SSD back on the jmicron controller and all was well again. I then added the 500GB HDD to the onboard controller in non-member raid (thinking the drive may need to be formatted in non-member raid mode), then I cloned the 240GB SSD to the 500GB HDD and that's where I am stuck right now with it not booting. Just as the 240GB wouldn't boot on the on-board non-member raid drive.

At this point I assume hardware issues, so I tried removing the jmicron controller and the 240GB SSD and still the HDD won't boot as on-board non-member raid.

I just now put the jmicron controller back in and connected the 500GB drive on the jmicron controller and it boots just fine? What the ...

How in the world did the jmicron controller completely take over the drive? This is very strange.

Any clues what happened? I've never had a controller hijack a drive before.

Sorry for the long and wordy post. My proof-read was hard to understand and I wrote it. I went through and removed all pronouns to help clarify everything. Hopefully it's easy to read now.

Thanks for everyone's help
-=Mark=-