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Cloning software wont let me select what to clone on a partitioned disk

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I bought a PNY SDD 480gb to clone my operating system to and even thought PNY support insists the Acronis True Image 2015 will allow me to select the contnet to clone, it will not.

i have even created an Acronis boot disk and it still wont allow this.

the process just gets tot he select destination and won't let me select anything.

I'm cloning on my desktop from a 1tb partitioned to two disks with 212 gb of material to migrate on the boot disk.

the 'manual' option works EXACTLY like the automatic option and i'm about at the end of my rope.

everyone isisted i could clone over just my operating system block and not both partitions, but this isn't happening. Makes me almost sorry i bought the blasted thing. :(

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Are those 2 disks in RAID?  If so, clone is not supported for dynamic disks (RAID and some hybrid solutions that use a caching SSD and another disk).  You would need to take a full disk backup and restore that image instead of using clone.  The outcome would be the same, but you'd also have a backup of the existing drive (just in case) and would not have the clone restrictions either. 

The OEM versions stink - they are supposed to support it, but they don't and they never update them and use older versions that they have modified to make more restrictive.  Those versions usually work OK for older legacy/bios systems and those that don't use RAID, but for anything using UEFI/GPT and/or RAID, newer, full versions are better since they have updated features and better driver support.  Even then, with RAID, most of the time you have to add the RAID controller drivers as well so that it will detect the RAID disk, and that is not possible in the default Linux media - you'd have to build Windows ADK instead. 

Try the backup/restore method and see if that helps.  If not, send me a PM.

Nope no Raids at all on this beast.

i was affraid you would say that about the OEM software.

it looks increasingly like i will have to try the backup option, if that fails i will have to take a day off to reinstall everything. not the first time that's happened :)

thanks for the quick response.

Have you tried the backup and restore method instead of cloning - if there's no RAID, that should do the trick.  Cloning has a few other limitations (such as not supporting disk with different sector sizes - newer SSD's and newer drives or drives over 2TB are often 4K, where older drives are 512Kb).  Backup and restore should work fine. 

Bill Bower wrote:
it looks increasingly like i will have to try the backup option

You say that as though that is a problem. Understand, there is no reason to clone. A full disk mode backup and restore includes everything that a clone would, but is much safer. I see no reason to clone, ever.