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Destination Drive Greyed out when trying to Select for Cloning

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When I try to clone my C drive to an internal SSD the destination drives are greyed out, anyone able to help with this?

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Matt, welcome to these User Forums.

Sorry but too little information to work with here?

What are the sizes of the drives involved here?
How are you trying to perform the clone of the C: drive?
What is on the internal SSD destination drive?
What options are you selecting for the clone?
How are the two drives connected within the computer?

Please also see forum topic: [IMPORTANT] CLONING - How NOT to do this for some safety tips when doing cloning even though ATI 2018 now allows doing this using Windows VSS snapshot methods from a live Windows OS.  Please always have a full backup of the source drive in case of any problems arising!

the C drive is at 936GB the SSD is 1.9TB
i am trying to use the Clone Disk option in Acronis True Image 2018
there is nothing on the SSD
i am using the automatic option in the clone disk wizard
the HDD is connected via SATA cable and the SSD is connected via M.2 port

Matt...Welcome to these user forums.

Per Steve's recommendation: "Please always have a full backup of the source drive in case of any problems arising!"

I believe the best way to proceed is to make a disk mode backup of the C drive...preferably to a hard drive attached via USB.  You are then protected in case something goes wrong with the clone.  There are instances where clone operations damage the boot record of the source drive.  I can't understand how this happens, but it does.

After the backup is complete, you can then attempt to restore the backup to the SSD.  If the restore is successful, you will then need to remove the HDD for the SSD to boot.

I also recommend Steve's link above "Cloning - How NOT to do this"...it contains a lot of good information on cloning & backups.

Regards,

FtrPIlot

Matt,

Your destination drive being an M.2 drive and attached to your motherboard internally may need a different driver than what you have installed. 

Can you give us details about your setup?  Make and model of motherboard, make and model of M.2 drive?  Can you post a screen shot of Windows Disk Management on your computer showing the M.2 drive?  Can you tell use what mode your SATA controller is set for?  This may not seem necessary but if the hard disk controller on your motherboard is Intel based (I am assuming it is) then the SATA mode would need to be set to RAID mode.