Can no longer clone hard drive
When I attempted my last periodic clone of my hard drive I received the following message:
Failed to write to sector 269,385 of hard disk '1'
Direct R/W operation has failed (0X590001)
I was always able to clone my HD Prior to downloading the latest Acronis update, which you prompted recently. I don't know if it was coincidental, just wanted to include thisd info, which might be relevant.

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Norman,
In Windows explorer, right click on the disk(s)/partition(s) you are backing up, choose properties, tools, check for errors. Check both boxes (file system and bad sector scanning).
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I had the same problem, cloning and crashed with the same error 0x500001. I read on the reviews that this would be seamless. How hard can it be, just copy one drive to another. Apparently for acronis, it's a mission impossible. I'm going to go to Amazon and rate it 1 star and buy one that's worth the money. It's 1:25 AM. I should have been in bed two hours ago (at least).
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Norman, Jose
Which version are you all running? I'm using TI Home 2011 Plus Pack Update 3 Build 6942 . I can't remember the last time I updated my TI version since I haven't encountered a situation that required updating, or none that I've observed.
I clone with the CD, outside of Windows.
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Hi Scoop, I gave up trying to clone my hard drive. I just did a clean install and re-installed all other software programs. It took some time, but trying to clone, was taking a ridiculous amount of time. I was trying to clone with Acronis 2014 and it's useless garbage, never got anything done, so I just popped in the SSD in the PC and installed everything from scratch.
The one thing that bothers me is that everybody says, "cloning a hard drive is fast and seamless," so I paid for same day delivery--thinking I'd be done that very same day--well, I slept after 3:00AM, still tried the next morning and NOTHING. I also bought the SSD enclosure, of course, which was rendered useless and I won't return it because the shipping would absorb much of the value.
Anyway, Scoop, thank you for taking the time to advise me.
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Jose,
Sorry to hear about your cloning problems with TI 2014. I've been cloning with TI 2011 for about 3 years and have had only 1 problem during that time but I've heard that there are issues with later TI product versions, Windows hanging at shutdown, etc.
Perhaps some of the 2014 version problems may be related to cloning while running Windows. I always clone with the CD booted ino RAM.
I have heard of cloning issues from users that are cloning in a "custom" mode, ie, resizing partitions, cloning from a "spinner" to SSD HDD, things like that.
I've only cloned using the Automatic mode with identical HDD's except for one time when I cloned from a 500Gb to a 1 Tb HDD to upgrade my HDD capabilities. That went without problems.
I've used other software to clone and have had no problems during my 3 years of periodic cloning but I prefer Acronis (2011) since it clones my PC's faster than a couple of my alternative Cloning/Imaging programs.
I wish it would have gone smooth for you with your cloning experience. I can only say for me, in 3 years, it has been fast and easy with one exception that happened recently. I've cloned 3 PC's for a total of about 75 cloning process without error except for one recent problem encountered.
I'm not sure if cloning with GPT HDD's (Windows 8[.1] is more problematic since I'm running Win 7x64 with MBR HDD's on my 2 PC's and XP on a family member's PC and those 3 PC's are the only ones I've cloned.
Regarding your Enclosure, you may find that useful for other purposes in the future. They're good tools for installing any HDD thru USB for file access. I use my Enclosure for pre-deleting all of my Target HDD's before cloning since it makes Source/Target HDD identification easy within any Cloning or Imaging software (the Target HDD will always be displayed as "unallocated" since I pre-delete the partitions before entering the Cloning/Imaging software programs).
That makes cloning in reverse just about impossible. I also prep the Target HDD's that way since my cloned spare HDD's are all identical Seagate's so I don't need to look at Serial # information in the Cloning Software dialog screens to determine Source & Target HDD's with one of the HDD's appearing as unallocated.
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