Help with Disk Cloning - Several Errors
Hello,
I just bought a 500 GB MX 500 to upgrade my slow HDD to an SSD. I have an HP Laptop with a 1 TB harddrive. The harddrive has a 12 GB Recovery Partition. I am only using 120 GB out of the 1 TB. Last night I tried cloning the HD onto the SSD and the process failed. Looking at the log file it gives several errors. I've tried searching these forums and the Acronis documentation and am unable to figure out why this process failed.
Hoping someone here can help.


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Steve Smith wrote:The log simply shows that you do not have sufficient free space on the new SSD to complete the clone operation (Error 0x101f6: A format/resize error. for the RECOVERY partition being resized).
I would recommend that you try to shrink your main C: partition manually to see if you can get this to be below the value of 451.7GB that Acronis is saying it is trying to achieve.
The alternative would be to delete the RECOVER partition if you have no intention to do a factory restore on this computer - the size of 14.43GB indicates that this is a factory recovery partition created when the computer was build by the maker to allow recovery back to the initial ship state with whatever version of Windows OS was on it at that time?
Thank You. What you say makes perfect sense, except I don't have a clue how to achieve this. Would it work if I tried to do a manual clone and selected only the main partition (and not the recovery).
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Download a copy of the free MiniTool Partition Wizard software and use this to resize the main C: OS partition to around 400GB if possible. This is easier than doing a manual clone.
Note: It is highly recommended that you have a full disk backup before doing either cloning or resizing partitions.
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