Blue screen only for over one hour
I am cloning my lenovo t430 laptop hard drivcce into an SSD from crucial. Followed the instructions and dowloades the application. Installed it and set up the cloning. All went well. it has been running for over an hour, all I see is a blue screen with the mouse arrow in thje middle and an EN sign on the lower bottom left. Does not show progress. Is that the way it is? Is it forzen? What do I do?


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Thanks.
Thank you for the response. I am cloning a 500 Gb HD. The SSD is connected via USB 3 with a cable bought from crucial. So, the process goes well, the windows restarts, says "preparing", then "cloning"with a bar. That cloning message is on screen a few seconds, then the screen is blue, with the mouse pointer frozen in the middle and an EN sign on the bottom left of the screen. I let it run like that, with the HD making noise, for about an hour. Then HD SSd light was on. Then thought it was frozen and turned off the computer. disconnected the usb and restarted.
I guess from what you are saying that I should let it run for two hours or so, then after cloning, the computer will turn off.
I will try to turn off Optimus and there is a back up.
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Carlos, it seems to me that you are a) starting this clone from within Windows, and b) doing so using an OEM version of Acronis True Image supplied by Crucial.
Cloning should only be done by using the Acronis bootable Rescue Media, and not at all unless you have done a full system backup of the source drive to an external disk drive to give you a way back when things go wrong.
Please see post: 128231: [IMPORTANT] CLONING - How NOT to do this!!! for further guidance on this subject.
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Carlos, keep us posted. With optimus off, and starting the clone from your rescue media as both Steve and I mentioned, I suspect the clone will go off without a hitch (assumign the rescue media sees both drives and you can see the screens with Optimus turned off). As also mentioned by both Steve and I, always best to have a backup before you clone. A backup is your saving grace in case something goes wrong since cloning is strictly "on the fly".
This is directly from the user manual..
http://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/ATI2016/#21822.html
- What is the best way to migrate the system to a new disk: cloning or backup and recovery? - The backup and recovery method provides more flexibility. In any case, we strongly recommend to make a backup of your old hard disk even if you decide to use cloning. It could be your data saver if something goes wrong with your original hard disk during cloning. For example, there were cases when users chose the wrong disk as the target and thus wiped their system disk. In addition, you can make more than one backup to create redundancy and increase security.
- Could you tell me how to clone: in Windows or after booting from the rescue media? Even when you start cloning in Windows, the computer will reboot into the Linux environment the same as when booting from the rescue media. Because of this, it is better to clone under rescue media. For example, there may be a case when your hard disk drives are detected in Windows and not detected in Linux. If this is the case, the cloning operation will fail after reboot. When booting from the rescue media, you can make sure that Acronis True Image detects both the source and target disks before starting the cloning operation.
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