2016 won't backup any of my PCs. Just messes up. Any ideas
When trying to clone the disks on my desktop it mixes the partitions on the two disks :-(
Completly impossible to mirror any of them without disconnecting the other :-(
Tried to boot CloneDisk from a CD. Same thing happends :-(
On my laptop that ha only one disk CloneDisk hangs no matter what I do :-(
Tried to boot CloneDisk from a CD. Same thing happends :-(
I'm getting real fed up. Shouldn't be this much trouble making a clone of a disk.
Anyone know any other software that can do this whithout messing up?
Not sure if I'm keep on bying the newest Acronis after all this trouble.


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I'm not clear of what's happening? Is the rescue media being used and it's failing to clone? Or when you start the clone it hangs, or when the clone is done, the partitions are not as expected after booting into Windows?
It sounds to me like the last item is happening, but I'm not sure?
If this is the case, are both of the disks internal and you're leaving both connected when you restart the OS?
If that's what you're doing, that is the issue. The main thing with cloning, is you never want to have 2 "identical" (cloned) disks connected INTERNALLY (having one on USB is fine as you can't boot Windows on USB and the disk takes on the information of the external adapter anyway) when booting up after the clone process. If you try to boot a system after cloning, where 2 internal disks are connected at the same time (the original and the new clone), this is will confuse the bios. Basically, you can't have two drives using the same signature in the system because the bios can't figure out why 2 different disks report as the exact same one. It then will try to "fix" the problem by modifying the bootloader of both disk and usually results in non-bootable disks. Or, you may find that it can boot, but because of the nifty changes the bios made, the partitions are dorked up because Windows can only assign one drive active drive letter to a disk at a time and you're booted into the wrong disk so it assigned new letters to the other one (can only have one C: drive).
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