Is my Cloned disk ok?
I just took a clone copy of my Samsum SSD 830 120GB to an a Samsung SSD 840 110GB After I cloned it, the system shut down.. before rebooting I removed by USB (with the new cloned copy). Then inserted the cloned copy via USB but it has just one file "xxxdrv"..
Not the entire c drive folder I cloned from. Is this normal?
Manny

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Please search the forum for "Clone" to find the many posts outlining our recommended procedure. For example, we recommend that you clone only after booting from the ATI bootable Rescue Media, not from Windows. Also, it would be equally effective but safer to perform a full disk mode backup and restore it to the new drive, rather than to clone.
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Thanks Tuttle..
Yes I did do a regular backup of my C drive prior to trying the clone out
And OK I redid the cloning..this time using the bootable disk. I still see a single file in that cloned SSD. $UpgDrv$
and the disk spaece it occupied is only 28MB..but my c drive is 110MB (almost full)
So is this valid clone? If I swap the SSDs would it boot up?
Manny
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Successful cloning is best done when booted from the TI Recovery CD with the new blank target disk inside the computer and source disk placed elsewhere.
On first boot following cloning, both source and target disk must NOT be both attached--only one or the other attached on first boot following cloning.
You do not mention which version of Windews nor whether you are working with MBR or GPT style partitioning.
44741: Acronis True Image 2014: Cloning Disks
45437: Acronis True Image Does Not Clone Drives with Different Logic Sector Sizes.
2931: Cloning Laptop Hard Disk.
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Hi Grover
"On first boot following cloning, both source and target disk must NOT be both attached--only one or the other attached on first boot " - Did exactly that
I am using Windows 7 64. working with MBR since its my c bootable drive.
I bought a secondary SSD 120GB thinking I would get a cloned disk and all I would have to do is swap the near identical SSD and I would be good. But if I understand you correctly I would have to boot with the acronis bootable disk and put an empty SSD where my old SSD was and then reclone it from my cloned SSD to this new empty SSD?
Manny
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Reclone from the source (old original system disk) to the new target.
Refer referenced links.
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