Hybrid Seagate Momentus XT 500 GB
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Is there a known problem with Hybrid drives?
With a Kingston SSD 128 GB primary, and a Hybrid Seagate Momentus XT 500 GB secondary
internal drives, from the Acronis live iso CD, Acro System Report returns a error
'... MBR sector is incorrect...' error on start up.
Although the the Hybrid hard drive in question is not recognized,
the acronis zip diagnostic file is correctly written to it.
Any help cloning my primary drive to a Seagate Momentus XT 500 GB Hybrid is appreciated.
Thanks
Ed
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Do you mean an external USB hybrid drive? I don't think Windows would allow booting from that anyway.
As for doing backups to and recoveries from external USB hybrid drives, there's not a general ATIH problem that I'm aware of. I've done many backups to and recoveries from external USB hybrid drives.
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Not a usb drive rather an internal eSATA drive, the Disk Clone taget is to be a
Seagate Momentus XT 500 GB - 300 MBps - 7200 rpm
(...the Seagate Momentus XT drive offers hybrid storage with Adaptive Memory technology, enabling the drive to deliver higher capacity and SSD-like performance... etc)
I am attempting to disk clone a Kingston 128 GB solid state drive, the source; to a Seagate Momentus 500 GB hybrid drive.
When I use the Acronis boot disk the 2nd drive, the target is not recognized. The 'Add a disk drive' option menu list does not show the target drive name.
When I boot to Windows 7, from the source drive, windows has no problem recognizing the target drive, to which I can read and write files normally.
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Question remains unanswered; how to backup a seagate momentus drive with acronis??? clone does not work; backup and restore creates a dual partition unbootable media.
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Matthew, the type of hybrid drive that you have is the core issue here due to how this presents as two separate drives or partitions, so unless you are recovering to an identical drive there is no solution for this situation.
If you have either ATIH 2016 or 2017 you could try raising this as a Support Case directly with Acronis to see if they can offer any other suggestions on how to proceed, otherwise if you have the 2015 or an earlier version then you are out of luck unless you can find a third-party product that can handle this type of drive better than Acronis does?
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Thanks for looking at the issue Steve and responding as an Acronis volunteer. I am reluctant to award Acronis's bad behavior for total lack of performance and support but the new hard drive is now working so here are the steps to clone a Seagate momentus Hybrid hard drive to a new hard drive using Acronis 2013.
1) create a Window recovery disk (go to run-> command -> "backup" and it will lead you to the option to create a bootable recovery disk)
2) perform a full disk backup as normal. Acronis will create an image that contains a c: partition, a MBR/partion0, and a un-named partition.
3) restore the c:partition and the MBR/partition0 to the new harddrive as disk restores.
4) restore the un-named partition as a file restore to a new location where the new location is the new c: drive.
5) install the new hard drive to the laptop and reboot(prior steps are done with the new harddrive on USB external cable)
6) you should get "major system error has occurred." black DOS screen. From here restart with the recovery disk and select "repair". Note: you may need the original Win7 Installation disk to do the "repair" which is what i used.
now the next reboot should start quasi-normal and win7 will boot up and start auto correcting the remaining errors.
I tried many other things but i think the above is the critical steps. Other things to try is #1) going to device manager->hard disks->ST95005620AS-> policies tab and unchecking the Enable write cache. #2) do a "as-is" recovery of the C: partition, MBR/Partition0, and un-named which results in you new hard drive with a dual partition image. Then go to file manager and move all files from the small partition to the larger c: partition (mainly you will see a folder called "Boot" and a system file called bootmgr but copy all). Then go to the hardware manager and delete the small partition, expand the large partition, and make the large partition as "active".
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Matthew, thank you for documenting your solution to this question.
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