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Cloning C drive to external HDD issues

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I currently have a Sony laptop running windows vista home premium 32bit with a 250Gb 5400rpm HDD and I just purchased a 750GB 7200RPM HDD. And I want to clone EVERYTHING over the new drive which I have hooked up externally. The computer sees the new HDD fine but when I go to clone the HDD using the Acronis 2013 software and I select clone, I get what the attached photo says. PLEASE HELP

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You say the computer see's the drive fine. Does that mean you can see the drive in Windows, or during the BIOS boot or setup screens?

Also the best way to clone a laptop hard drive is to put the new drive in the laptop, and the old drive in an external USB or eSATA enclosure and boot to the Acronis Rescue Media and perform the clone from the external to the internal drive.

Before you perform the clone, it would help if you post a screen capture of your existing disk as seen in the graphical view of Windows Disk Management.

Perform your procedures when booted from the TI bootable Recovery CD.

One disadvantage of using the clone via the automatic mode is that the program will proportionally resize the partitions and you have no control over their size---if using automatic mode. If using manual mode, user can control the partition sizes.

If you have hidden or vendor partitions, you will want to keep those partitions the same size and only expand the Windows partitions and the Data partition--if you have one.

When doing the clone, the very last page of the TrueImge clone procedure provides a summary of the projected new sizes. If the sizes are acceptable, then proceed but if size corrections needed, then CANCEL and do not proceed with the automatic mode.

Should you have difficulty or problems, another option would be use the manual clone and use the "as is" method for moving. This would make the new disk the same size (as is) partitions as the old disk and the remaining space as unallocated--which can easily be expanded after the clone.

Another option would be to make a full disk backup and restore the backup onto the blank 750. This is a safer method than when doing the clone.

Whether performing a clone or a backup restore, try using the Recovery CD "Add new disk" option and delete any partitions on the new disk so all space on the new disk is unallocated space. This should enable TrueImage to see your new disk so you can complete the clone or restore--whichever method you use.