Problems with cloning Win10
Can one help please
We tried to make a clone drive of one of ours WIN10 machine with True Image 2015. Doing that using the windows application fails immediately as the cloning process began and the system restart to a normal Win10 one.
From the internet we learned that in such case the best is to try to do that by a removable bootable device. So we generated a USB stick and booted the computer from there. All worked fine to the point cloning process began – Immediately at this stage the cloning stopped and the application ended.
Does one have an idea what is the solution
Thanks


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Hello Steve
We have tried all possible ways (With USB stick Within windows With or Without external drive ) and none worked
Finally, we swirch to other drive of the same size same manufcturer and all worked ok
When cloneing another computer of us with that drive all worked OK
Any idea what could be the matter
Thanks
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AviAs, the most likely issue with the drive that didn't work for you is that it has some bad sectors which will cause cloning to fail.
I would recommend running a CHKDSK /F /R against that problem drive.
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Dear Steve
Thanks for reply
It is more strange than we can think on
We did CHKDSK for that disk before giving up as well all of the possible approach of the True Image booting - did not help at all
Replaced the disk with another one of same type and all worked OK first time
This all brought us to question "Is the disk is the issue"
So we did the clone on ANOTHER COMPUTER OF SAME CONFIGURATION (MB, BIOS, Hardware/Software) with win10 of us and ALL WENT OK first run We also boot the clone disk and made some work with it and all worked as should be.
There should be reason for this strange behavior – Probably the people in Acronis should be able to solve it – yet, 2015 does not have any more support from them and we don’t feel that for monthly clone we should upgrade all of our computers.
All Best
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I am also having a problem cloning my laptop system disk. I am using the Acronis Boot Disk. The system disk (M2 128GB) was placed in a USB enclosure, the target (M2 500GB) in the laptop. Windows 10 Explorer sees the USB. The target was initialized in the USB enclosure with Disk Director 12, so Disk Director 12 has no problem with it. True Image 2015 Cloning does not see it. It only sees the internal drives. I downloaded 2017 to try, but the Clone feature is locked. Now I have to re-install 2015 because 2017 apparently removed it.
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UPDATE-
Solved it. I reinstalled 2015 then created a new BOOT disc. Everything was then recognized. The cloning went off without a hitch. One observation- the clone operation identified the USB drive as SCSI. What the Hey, as long as it worked.
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Paul, glad to hear you have solved your problem with cloning your laptop drive. Thanks for giving feedback on how.
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