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Failed to read MBR sector in Clone.

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I have Windows 7 64 bit.

I am trying to clone my system drive to an SSD (smaller than my system drive but with plenty of space) using a USB connection. The objective is to then replace the current system drive with the SSD.
I started the CLONE wizard but after reboot, Acronis came up with "Failed to read MBR sector" and then rebooted again without doing anything. I've checked both disks using Properties in Windows Explorer and they don't show any problems.

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Are you cloning from the recovery CD?

IF cloning fails, can you create an all-partition disk and partition backup from the recovery CD to a USB disk, swap your disks and simply restore the back on the SSD?

See thread here
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/26162

Pat,

No, I was trying to clone directly from the HDD to the SSD.

I will try your suggestion. Thanks for your help.