Acronis Clone not working properly
I've always used Acronis Clone Disk successfully in the past, and usually clone 1 HD to another yearly and switch master drives. I have now tried twice to clone from my main drive (A 3TB drive, but just using 1.99 TB as NTFS) to a 2TB NTFS drive, and both times the results were failures.
After the first cloning attempt, I got error messages about the OS not being accessible on either drive (tried them separately) and had to repair Windows (7 Pro) on my main drive. Today I tried again, and after cloning, the new drive had the same error regarding not being able to access Windows. I ran the Windows repair program to no avail. I then switched back to my other drive successfully, looked at the folders on the clone, and everything looked OK, but the OS wasn't being recognized. So the cloning seemed to transfer the files and partitions, but I still can't use the clone. Any thoughts as to why this might have happened, any suggestions?


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I've never had to "clone from the recovery CD" before. How and why would a recovery CD allow one to clone 1.5TB of data?
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The recovery CD has all the same functions as the version installed on you hard drive. THis approach is recommended because it eliminates any issues when windows reboots your machine during the process.
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I have a new computer with windows 8.1 and I cloned the 1 TB OEM drive to a 2 TB drive. The OEM had a "healthy EFI system; a 12.74 MB Healthy
Recovery and 350 MB Healthy Recovery Partition. The Cloned drive has the above plus a 490 GB and a 450 GB healthy recovery partitions. I don't understand why this is...I expected the same number of partitions but proportionately larger. Anyone know the answer???
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Robert,
Believe your answer lies in this link. The option marked in the illustration is the default for TI.
http://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/ATIH2014/index.html#…
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My question apparently alluded you. I cloned a drive that had 4 total partitions...I selected the option to clone with PORPORTIONAL options. I got instead 2 additional partitions and three proportionally larger and 1 identical. It makes no sense to me because it does not match my choice when cloning.
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I see, I did take your question wrong indeed. Not sure why the program created the 2 additional partitions. Not sure really what you were looking to do but I have a hard time understanding why you want the predefined recovery partitions expanded proportionally. Would suggest choosing a manual mode and then designate your partition sizes. If you want or need more space on the EFI partition you can enlarge it but I would leave the other recovery partitions the same size they are now.
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