Cloning or restoring - Target disk can't be selected
Hello,
I'm not sure if I'm in the right section. I'm using Acronis True Image OEM.
I want to clone the HDD of my aging Asus laptop on a new SSD.
When I try to clone it the SSD is shwoning on the select target window but can't be selected (stay gray).
I tried making a backup of my HDD then restoring it to the SSD, but same result.
Computer is on Win7
Both drives are 512 bytes/sector
Both drives are basic
Both drive are MBR (UEFI not supported by the computer)
New drive is larger than old drive (480Go vs 320Go)
Old drive doesn’t have bad sector (neither the new one)
I tried running acronis from windows and from bootable media
I tried cloning and restoring with HDD in computer and SSD in USB case and the opposite
I don't see what I'm missing. Have you some suggestions ?
Thanks for your help
Marc


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Hello Steve, thanks for your answer.
My old drive is a seagate I think and my new drive is a Yucun.
My OEM ATI is from a PNY set containing a usb-SATA enclosure and a bay for the drive. I'm using the provided usb enclosure.
Thanks for the links, I already read them. I doubled check and I think I follow the advice.
As advised I tried to place my new drive into the laptop and making the clone from the usb enclosure containing my old drive. Same, the old disk can be chosen as source but the new can't be chosen as target.
One more thing, I can chose the new SSD as source (and the old HDD as target).
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Marc, if your OEM ATI is from PNY, then it will be looking for a PNY drive to be present.
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Hello,
I am a little bit surprised as my usb drive was detected as a PNY device but it seems that the brand of the drives may be the cause of the pb.
I succeded in cloning my drive with Macrium without any problem.
It's a shame that OEM acronis product have this limitation and above all that acronis doesn't provide any info in the software about the problem encoutered (just grayed out).
Next time I will have to save or clone a drive I will not look into acronis products for sure :/
Thank you very much for your help Steve
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