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Wont scale drive

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I am cloning a 500GB HDD to a 480GB SSD

It is not giving me the option to scale the drive like it has in the past, did this happen in a update?

Hardley using any space on the 500 so it should be able to scale 

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Morgan, welcome to these public User Forums.

Sorry but impossible to guess at what may be happening here with so little information?

I would recommend making a full disk backup of your source 500GB HDD before attempting any further clone operations.

I would also recommend running CHKDSK for the HDD to ensure that there are no file system errors involved which might cause Acronis to switch to using sector-by-sector mode of operation and thus require a target drive of equal or greater size.

Beyond the above, then the Demon log files for the failed clone would be needed to try to understand what the issue is.

There is a new MVP Assistant log viewer tool that has now been made available by Acronis via the Community Tools page.. 

If you have Disks & Partitions backups created on ATI 2020 or later using .tibx files, then look in the Backup Worker logs.

If you have Files & Folders backups using .tib files (or Disk backups from earlier versions using .tib files) then look in the Demon logs.

Other logs are shown by the MVP Assistant under the 'Active Logs' heading of the Log Viewer page of the Assistant.

The log files should be zipped to preserve their original file names if sharing in the forums and would need to be less than 3MB in size, otherwise you would need to share the zip file via a Cloud share service such as OneDrive, Dropbox etc.