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Installed new drives and tried to setup cloning

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Hello all, I don't know what I am missing. I purchase two identical 2TB hard drives. I installed the first one, partitioned it and then cloned my original C:\ drive. Removed my C:\ drive and moved the new clone SATA cable to the #1 spot. Booted up the computer fine with only the new drive installed. Then installed the second drive. In Acronis True Image 2011 I went through Add New Disk, Created Partition and then tried to clone the 2TB C:\ drive to the new TB G:\ drive. Teh clone process keeps failing with "Failed to prepare operations. Error code: 9 'A file system error has been found.' with extended code: 458,785 'Failed to create volume snapshot." Any ideas what I am missing. Thanks for any suggestions.
Frank

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Which Windows operating system?

Using Windows Disk Management console, look the original disk to see what partitions are listed and how their sequence--also which partition is the active partition.

Do the same looking on the working 2TB. What you have on the 2TB may be different than you believe. The pre-creation of partitions on the 2TB was voided by the clone. The current partition structure and size was put there by the clone process.

I do not recommend performing the clone due to the risk factor of a user mistake or progam or hardwre malfunction. My preference is the disk mode backup and restoring the backup. Final result is the same as clone except no risk to source as source not attached.

If you choose to continue cloning, the next step would be to
1. Insert the non-working 2TB in the orignal connectors of where original disk was attached. For safety sake, this should be the only disk connected.
2. Boot from the TI Recovery CD. All processing will be done from the CD.
3. Use the Add new disk option and remove or delete the botched data on the non-working 2TB disk. Partitioning is not needed. The disk will be initialized as MBR and all space will be unallocated.
4. Also attach the orignal disk via other connectors so both source and target is attached. Target attacehed to original connects. Source connected via other means.
5. Clone the old disk onto the 2TB disk.
If you clone via the manual mode, you can resize the partitions to your preferred size.
If you clone via automatic, the new partiton partitons and sizes will match the other 2TB disk--which you say was successful.
6. Shutdown and remove the original old disk.
7. Reboot with only the new 2tb connected.
The new 2TB disk should be identical to the other 2TB disk. You can only atttach one or the other--not any of the the three disks at the same time.

Be very very cautious. A wrong disk selection could ruin your master disk.