Clone Disk Failed

What are you cloning from and to?

My best advice: Do not Clone! Instead, do one extra step and create a full disk Backup to an external drive. If ever you need to return to that image state, you would do a full disk Restore/Recovery.

There is rarely a need to Clone. Really, Backup is safer and more flexible. Many users encounter problems Cloning which they would not have if they had instead used Backup.

1. Don't use Clone. Do a full disk Backup, selecting the entire disk, and a Restore. The end result will be the same as Clone, but with many advantages.

2. Check out the many user guides and tutorials in the left margin of this forum, particularly Getting Started and Grover's True Image Guides which are illustrated with step-by-step screenshots.

A full disk backup, selecting the disk checkbox rather than individual partitions, includes everything. It includes everything that a clone would include.

The difference is that while a clone immediately writes that information a single time to another drive, a backup is saved as a compressed .tib archive. As such, multiple .tib archives may be saved to a single backup drive, allowing for greater redundancy, security and flexibility.

Once a full disk image .tib archive is restored to a drive, the result is the same as if that drive had been the target of a clone done on the date and time that the backup archive was created.

Clone is riskier because we've seen situations where users mistakenly choose the wrong drive to clone from and to, thus wiping out their system drive.

Thank you. But unfortunately - that is not an option at this time.

I am duplicating computers that I am building for customers. They are exactly the same -- so it's not a backup, but indeed a clone.

Since the software supports cloning and I have used it before -- why wouldn't it work now?

I am cloning from a USB Hard Drive to a new SATA Drive.

You could do the same thing with a Backup and Restore. Instead of cloning from your original disk to the disks of the other PCs, backup that original disk to an external drive (or to another internal drive), then restore that image as many times as you like to the other PCs.

There's nothing magic about a Clone. All it does is to eliminate one step, at the cost of greater risk. Backup and Restore is safer and simpler.

tk-newbie,

While booted to the USB Rescue Media use the tool "Add a new disk" to initialize the SSD before starting the clone.
You will be prompted to create a MFT or GPT disk layout on the new drive. You should select whatever layout the original hard drive had. (Probably MFT).

James

Mr. Tuttle

Thank you for the response. I understand based on your first post that I could do the same thing -- but at this stage -- I am trying to recover from a clone.

The issue and question is not a question about which is better -- obviously -- based on your statement, there is no difference and backup/restore is more reliable.

Right now, I am building a new computer with a new, blank hard drive -- with a clone on an external drive that has worked before to create a duplicate of another system.

Since I do not have the other system, this is the system that needs to be cloned. In the future, I will take your advice to backup and restore, but in this case, I am asking for a solution for "clone disk failed"

Do you have a solution or reason why this would happen?

Thank you.

You do realize that you are supposed to have a 2013 True Image Home license for each PC you clone, right?

James

Thank you for the response.

I tried to add the new disk as advised and then clone -- got the same results.

One item I did notice is that it said the disk was 100% unallocated? Is this normal for a blank disk? Does it need to be initialized or formatted in some way ---

It's a brand new SSD SATA Drive that is recognized in Acronis and Bios.

Thank you for your input.

Looking at the logs, it says that "Operation with partitiion D was terminated:Details:MFT Bitmap Corrupted

Well -- after restarting several times -- unplugging and replugging -- cloning worked.

Don't know why. I'm open to input --

The unallocated space is the preferable status for a new disk being cloned or restored. If the disk has used data such as a botched attempt, the Recovery CD would be the cloning vehicle and the CD has the 'ADD DISK" utility which can be used to delete any existing partitions on the target disk.

Some of the new advanced format spin disks seem to have a more successful clone or restore if a blank partition is created first by Win7 before performing the clone or restore.

In your case, if using Win 7, you an use the Windows Recovery CD to do a repair if the ssd is not bootable.