Clone of WD HDD (1TB) to new WD Green (1TB) - FAIL
I have a 1TB WD HDD in my laptop that I would like to upgrade to a new 1TB WD Green SDD. I have downloaded Acronis True Image for Western Digital and every time I attempt to clone the drive it fails. I bought a 1TB internal SDD (WD Green) to replace a WD 1TB drive (HDD) in my laptop.
I have run chkdsk and scanned the HDD for errors or bad sectors and there are none. It is unable to complete the copy (or start) the C:\ drive partition.


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Is there a setting in the WD green drive to prevent sleep? One issue I've read in other forums about those drives is that they go into sleep mode even when "active" at times. I hope that's not the case here, and probably not likely, but that is one of the biggest down sides of the power management features of the green drives.
If the clone is not working, next step (and my preference anyway), would be to take a full backup of the source drive and store it where it is accessible (like an external USB drive). Remove the original drive, pop in the new drive and restore the image to the new drive.
The results are the same as the clone process. However, it is SAFER as you now also have an exact backup of the system before doing anything else and that backup can be restored to any drive, should there be any issues with the source or new drive at any time. Backups are our friend and safety net. Cloning is nice for the assumed ease-of-use, but cloning is not full proof and if you have no backup, even the cloning process can cause issues if something goes wrong in the process.
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One other thought/note... 1TB drives are not necessarily the same size (usable space) depending on the buffer size. If there is a potential issue on the original drive (chkdsk was OK, but may not be checking the hidden partitions where the bootloader or recovery partition are) and needing to do a sector-by-sector clone. In that case, if the new drive is slightly smaller (usable space) than the original (usable space), the clone could still fail. That's another reason why taking a backup and recovering the backup could be helpful too.
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