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Clone Disk Wizard jumps straight to "what to exclude".

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I have a 1TB Seagate HDD that is GPT and NTFS. I'm trying to clone it to a 240GB SanDisk SSD which is not initialized. When select the source and destination disks and try to proceed to where I'd normally select the proportional clone option, it instead goes straight to "what to exclude".

To see if there was anything wrong with the drive I ran Seagates SeaTools Long DST and CrystalDiskInfo to look at the SMART information. I then ran a chkdsk in Windows to see if it's turn up anything. But everything looks good.'

Does anyone have any other ideas?

Thanks,

Derek R.

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Derek, welcome to these public User Forums.

I would suspect that because your target 240GB SanDisk SSD is not initialized that ATI is automatically selecting it as the target for the clone operation, hence is skipping that step.

The alternative approach is to use the 'Add new disk' option and initialise the new SSD but leave it as unformatted (no partitions created), so that it is also using GPT partition scheme, then you will see the missing steps.

Given that you are moving from a 1TB HDD drive, I would strongly recommend making a full disk backup before attempting the clone operation, plus I would further recommend trying to shrink the size of the partitions on that HDD to below the size that will fit on the SSD.

You can try using Windows Disk Management to Shrink the main C: OS partition / volume on the HDD which will give an idea of how far Windows can shrink it down, and if this is still too large to fit on the SSD, then download a copy of the free MiniTool Partition Wizard software and use that instead, where PW will also allow you to move any hidden / system partitions such as the Recovery one if needed.