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Clone SSD to HDD Disk

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I'm trying to clone my solid state drive to a larger hard disk drive. I'm using the clone tool in Acronis 2015. After I set the source and destination disks and click proceed I'm instructed to restart the laptop. Upon restart the laptop boots into windows and Acronis never proceeds with the clone and the job is basically forgotten by the software.

I've had trouble using other disk cloning software too. One such program reported that the source disk was too fragmented to proceed. I haven't been able to solve the problem with that software either.

I'm at the point where I really believe that it might not be possible to clone a SSD to HDD.

Has anyone tried this and been successful?

Pointers, advice, workarounds would be much appreciated!

 

Thank you 

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Ter, welcome to these User Forums.

Please see forum topic: [IMPORTANT] CLONING - How NOT to do this - which has references to other helpful resources.

Any cloning of drives should normally be performed by using the Acronis bootable Rescue media, not started from within Windows (as explained in the above forum topic).

By default, Acronis uses a Linux based environment for both restarting from Windows & the rescue media environment, but this may not recognise your SSD drive or external HDD depending on the type of drive and how connected?  ATI 2015 predates NVMe M.2 / PCIe SSD drives and USB 3.0 connections so is unlikely to recognise such devices when using the Linux media.

Doing a Backup of the source SSD from within Windows then Restoring that backup to the new HDD drive also from within Windows can be a way around the above issue providing you do not attempt to boot from the HDD while connected externally - it has to replace the internal drive.

The alternative would be to create the Windows PE version of the Rescue Media but this is not so easy with older versions of ATI such as 2015.

Thank you for your reply. I'll look over all the documentation. 

Both of my hard drives are internal, the HDD is not a usb drive.