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"cannot add a volume to the AFPS container" error. Solutions?

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Hi all. I'm new here...

Just got v2020 for Mac to use on my Hackintosh. Trying to clone my whole boot drive (with EFI partitions and Mojave etc) to an external 1TB HDD.  When I click "clone" it formats the drive but then gives the error 

"An error occurred while cloning the disk. Cannot get the name of the device. Check for a solution." 

the solution link just takes me to the knowledge base.

I also tried partitioning the (brand new WD Passport) drive with 1 partition using Mac OS ext journaled. It then got as far as making a Mojave partition but fails with "cannot add a volume to the afps container"

When I mount EFI partitions it shows an EFI partition on the target (using MSDOS) with Apple, Clover etc in it. Theres' also a partition named Mojave, but it seems to be empty.

Any ideas?

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You may get a quicker response if you post on the ATI MAC forum.

Ian

Brad,

Ditto to Ian, but I'd also be curious if you are using the Windows version of the rescue media or the Mac version of the rescue media?

Personally, I would not try to clone here, but instead, I would attempt to take a full disk backup and then restore it using the Macintosh rescue media to the new drive and see if that works.  

Keep in mind, Hackintosh is not supported by Apple and as a result, probably by Acronis.  I myself have a few VMWare Hackintosh too, but typically don't clone or use True Image to backup.  I just use the VMWare snapshots and migration tools.  I really don't know if you can take a Hackintosh VM and image to a physical drive and have it boot elsewhere.  Apple does impose hardware restrictions for booting certain OS on unsupported versions of other Macintosh hardware and now that they are also using things like firmware enabled secure boot by default, that might cause some other issues too.