clone disk hangs
Hi
I have tried cloning my laptop hardisk to an ssd drive attached by usb. used automatic settings. part way through the process of cloning, the system stopped working. left it working overnight. I had to cancel. now when i try to redo the same process, Acromis says i need two hard drives to perform that action. I assume this is because the ssd drive has now got something on it. Any ideas how to redo it?
thanks
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I would not Clone. Even if I wanted to copy the system to an SSD to immediately install the SSD as my new replacement system drive, I would use Backup and Restore instead.
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.
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I thank you both for your help. It is very kind of you to take the time.
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