clone a 2nd HD fails
Hi everybody,
I use True Image Home 9.0 and wanted to clone my original HD to a 2nd one.
Hardware:
Lenovo c200 3000 with WIN XP Prof, SP3
HD1 is the built in 80 GB SATA
HD2 is a 320 GB SATA conected via a SATA-USB 2.0 Converter
Now the problem.
In True Image i select "clone Harddisk"
Than I use Type of clone: automatic
than I see my HD1 IDE(0) primary master, and my
HD2 USB
I select the old and the new HD
than don't delete partion on old HD
than I get the old HD with partition and the extended partition on the new HD
and at last I get a list, what True Image will do
After I click the finish button, it says "lock drive c:" and just bevore it starts to reboot my notebook I see a "operation aborted"
than windows restarts and bevor it goes to the windows login password, the screen gets dark. I first thought it is ok and only take long time to do the job, but after 13 hours wait I canceld it.
After I was looking with explorer to the new HD, nothing was done there. No formating, no partition, no data. Only the empty HD there.
I tried this already 4 times, and installed True Image new.
I also installed WIN XP on the new HD and played a backup of the old HD on it, but than WIN don't start on the new HD.
Now I am at the end of my knowledge. Can anybody help me? I have many programmes on my old HD, it would need weeks to install all new and customise it.
Thanky you very much for help, and excuse my bad English.
Hi DwnNDrty,
I solved the problem, after trying nearly 1 week!
The solution is to make a boot CD within True Image, booting the notebook with it and doing the clone from there. It looks like a programme on my notebook is blocking the clone from starting correct if I do it under a running Windows.
Now all is fine, I am already on the new HD.
Thanks for your help.
Regards,
Helmut
As an aside: Ah the formatting features are now available.
Yes, Helmut, the bootable CD is always safer to use to do the True Image procedures for the very reason you found out. But you must have meant that you have version 2009 as I do not think the version 9 can see Sata drives. In any case I'm glad to hear you got it sorted out.
Make sure that you have the full capacity of the 320Gb drive for use as sometimes when cloning from 80 to 320, the process only lets you use 80Gb. If this has happened there is an easy way to recover the space.
TI 9 can see SATA drives. It just depends on the chipset drivers (as with any other version).
DwnNDrty,
MudCrab is right. I have Acronis True Image Home 9.0 and it was no problem for it to see my two SATA drives.
I made the proportional clone, so TI was expanding my 80 GB HD to the 320 GB HD without loosing space on it.
The only problem is, that my 1. partition expanded from 5,97 GB to 23,9 GB. So I have a lot of free space there, which I lost on partition 2. But it is too dangerous for me to reduce it with a partition programe.
I can live with the 274 GB on partition 2, lol.
Regards,
Helmut
For future, the way to have control over the partition sizes is to go the Image/Restore way instead of Clone. You're very lucky to have a chipset on a Sata system that Version 9 is happy with. I've looked at a few laptop systems with sata drives and version 9 would not see the drives.