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Clone Process Failed - appearing to be working but had nothing after 24 hours of "migration".

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HP Z200 workstation with 16 gb of ram attempting to clone the mechanical HD to a SSD.

Mechanical drive has under 100 GB of data and the SSD has 223 GB of space.  Ultimate plan is to have a second SSD for data and any new programs.

Very frustrated - I could sure use some help.

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There are some limitations with clones - particularly if sector size is different between the disks or if there is a bad sector on one or both disks.  You should run chkdsk /f /r on the source and destination and try again.  Make sure to start the clone process with your offline bootable media and not from in Windows as well.  Offline bootable media is safer as starting teh clone in Windows, changes the Windows bootloader so that it boots into Acronis, but if the boot into Acronis fails, may not revert back to Windows.  This is entirely avoidable by using the offline bootable media.

Personally, because of the limitations of cloning, I would recommend that you take a full disk backup of the original disk and save it elsewhere. Then restore that full disk image to the new drive.  Result will be the same, but you have the added benefit of a backup you can always return to and iit's more likely to work without issue since limitations are not there that are in the clone process.

Ditto Bobbo with the bootable Recovery Media.  You will need the recovery media anytime you perform a Clone or recover an OS system drive as those operations require that the target disk (disk being written/retored to) is off line (not in use) when performing such operations.