True Image 2019, Cannot clone to SSD
I have a ThinkPad e540, using True Image to clone from HD to SSD using my PC and Thermaltake USB Disk docking system. This is something I've done in the past with no problems, but never tried it with a ThinkPad.
After completed and putting the SSD in the ThinkPad, system boots but I get nothing but a blinking cursor. I understand the difference between legacy and UEFI, the bios is set to use boot both with a legacy first option. The original hard drive is GPT and the clone is the same.
Looking for suggestions or someone who has been through a similar experience with a ThinkPad.
Thanks.


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Definitely make sure your booting the recovery media in the right mode (uefi or legacy) as the boot method can determine the outcome of the disk type. Also, after cloning, once you've swapped the disks out, go into the BIOS and make sure the boot order is still the same as it may be trying to boot a USB drive or something else first instead of the new disk.
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Just to make sure I follow Enchantech, I am removing the HD from the laptop, putting it in the Thermaltake dual SATA docking station, put the SSD in the other side of the doc and tell the pc to clone the HD's. If I should do this differently, please let me know.
Bobbo_3C0X1, thanks for the advice, will check on that.
Charlie...
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Charles, that should work as long as the drives are the same physical size (or the new drive is bigger than the original). Just be sure you have the original in the source and the new one in the destination. If you put them in backwards you'll have two nice blank drives.
Which dock do you have? Most of them can clone without even needing to connect it to a PC. just a matter of pushing the clone button or holding it down to start the process. Not all docks work the same though, but if it's fairly recent, it probably can do this.
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Charles,
Not exactly. True Image is not capable of running the clone tool without the need to reboot your computer to do so. This is called a "Live Clone". There are other utilities that can do this as well. Because a clone is a bit for bit copy of one disk to another disk and because running the clone tool while your machine is already booted and running the concerns that Bobbo mentions about booting, UEFI and Legacy are non existent.
This new feature was introduced in True Image 2018 and that version had issue with Live Cloning when the target disk, (the one being cloned to) had an existing Windows install on it. The behavior was after you would setup the clone and choose Proceed the app would state that a reboot was necessary. so if you have that happen then just cancel the clone operation. The 2019 version has corrected that behavior so I do not think you will see that. I myself have run a number of clones with 2019 while booted into Windows and all have worked fine.
You can access the clone tool from the Windows Start button. It is located in the Acronis directory there.
So I recommend placing the SSD in the dock, Open the Clone tool from the Windows Start button. Once started select your Windows disk. The default clone mode should be Proportional which is what you need to have selected, select the SSD as destination or target. Click on Proceed and let the tool run. When finished. Shutdown the laptop. Remove the SSD from the dock, remove the hard drive from the laptop and replace with the SSD. Start your laptop and enjoy your new SSD.
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