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Is there one simple and accurate process to use TI2013 to clone the C: disk?

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Goal: Replace a 1TB system HDD by a 512GB SSD (Vertex4)

Boot Disk: 1TB total but just 196GB used (C: Boot, etc.), System Reserved 100MB (no letter) and 100MB partition (F:)
O/S: Windows 7 Pro x86
TI: Acronis True Image 2013 (full licensed version)

- I have a Black Widow BlackX eSATA+USB docking station but the eSATA is not recognized as the BIOS set-up my HDDs as SATA and not ACHI (it was the default... live & learn...)

- However, the BlackX & VERTEX4 SSD is recognized when using the USB portion.

- I tried CLONING via USB and selected the scaling option. At one point, I am told I need to reboot which is what I do. The computer reboots and starts the TI's application. However, after a few minutes and a couple of TI screens, the computer reboots and returns to the normal Win 7 screen. No error messages, nothing... but it failed to clone. (Is there a log file somewhere??

Now I read several threads and FAQs. However, some are VERY long and others are unclear or complex.

So my questions are simple:

Q1> Ïs there a simple way to clone the boot drive so I can use the new SSD drive in place of the HDD????

Q2> At this stage, would it be simpler to format the SSD, load the OS and start fresh? Granted, I will need to reinstall everything but this might be a bad thing... just time consuming.

Oh, if the "start fresh" path is suggested, I would set the BIOS to ACHI and not SATA. However, will this affect my other SATA-II drives (300GB and 1TB used for data)

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Bruno,

As you are attempting to clone the OS drive it is better to clone from the recovery Cd rather than starting in Windows, this is so that Windows cannot lock or otherwise interfere with the disk.

If this still fails, try a reverse clone whereby you put the source drive into the external caddy and the destination drive into the PC. Once the clone is successful make sure you disconnect the source drive before booting the PC otherwise Windows will become confused and quite likely crash.