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I am trying to clone my C drive to a USB drive.  Both drives are 1 TB in size.  The USB drive has been formatted to NTFS (I also tried FAT32). 

The USB drive previously had information on it before the format.  When running Acronis, when I choose the destination drive (USB), it tells me that the partition contains partitions and asks if I want to delete them, I click OK and then click proceed.  It then tells me that a computer restart is required.  I rebooted but then had to start True Image again and the process repeats itself.  I am not sure what I am doing wrong.

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I recommend performing the clone while booted from the rescue media. If you haven't created the rescue media please do so. It will become important if to recover your system if it does not boot in the future. See http://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/ATI2016/#26968.html.

FYI, I also agree with thomasjk.  However, if it fails that way as well, it's possible that the drives are using different sector sizes (most drives 2TB and under use 512kb sector sizes, 3TB and larger use 4k sector sizes - some ssd sector sizes vary as well) and cloning will not be possible.  

In that case, you would have to take a full disk image of the original drive and save it somewhere other than the 2 drives for the transfer.  Then revoer the full disk image back to the new drive.  It's basically the same output as cloning, but you have the added benefit of getting a backup image in the process and it doesn't have any sector limitations like cloning does.

http://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/ATI2016/index.html#3…

http://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/ATI2016/index.html#2…

http://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/ATI2016/index.html#2…