Clone Disk attempts to work, but reboots back to original drive. (Hybrid drive, mSATA w/ standard disk)
So I'm trying to clone my system, which is a Dell XPS 15 9530 that contains a hybrid drive (so an mSATA drive that evidently hosts files to boot the computer). When I use the clone tool, it properly selects the source drive, and then the destination drive, which is a Samsung EVO 850 attached via a SATA dock connected via USB3. Acronis reports this as a RAID drive.
After the clone wants to reboot the system, I get an error 'Acronis UEFI starting, runtime error' and it boots directly back to the original OS. I have attached a crappy picture that shows this behavior, but it gives you an idea what's going on.
I've also created a recovery USB, which it boots too just fine, and I tried to do a clone there. But I get a message that I'm using a trial version of Acronis, and I am absolutely not, I have a single PC license and it's validated on this PC.
Is Acronis 2015 simply not capable of cloning these types of systems to a different style drive?
Any help you could provide would be much appreciated!
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It's a strange setup, a hybrid setup from Dell. The mSATA drive just handles some cache and boot 'files' of some type, but then a standard 1TB disk does the main storage. Acronis didn't see the mSATA drive at all, only the 1TB drive so no matter what I did, I couldn't ever get the clone to work, actually, it wouldn't even clone at all. I would get an error after the reboot when it should have booted into the Acronis environment, take a look at the attached image.
After messing around with it for a while, I just decided to do a full PC backup, then booted into Acronis Recovery and recovered that image to the new SSD drive. Installed that SSD drive and left the mSATA drive in place and it boots just fine and works just fine. I just don't think Acronis handles these types of setups very well, but at least I did get everything working as I wanted, although the ideal would have been not to have to leave the mSATA installed for it to work.
I did try booting into recovery and doing the Clone there, but it always reported that I needed to buy a licensed copy, but it IS licensed, not sure what that's all about either.
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