Seagate Momentus XT
Hello everybody,
The Seagate Momentus XT is a hybrid drive that uses 4 GB of SSD (single Cell) together with 500 GB of regular HDD.
Since its known that TI 10 has problems with aligning SSDs right, i wonder if i have to expect problems with TI (ANY problem not just aligning) using this drive.
Is Acronis capable of recognizing that this drive ist actually 2 HDDs or how is that managed? Any thoughts welcome!
Philocyber
I could be wrong, but I thought I read that the Seagate managed itself. Your PC will see it as one traditional drive, and then some sort of algorithm is used inside the drive so that the Momentus decides what to move to the SSD area based on frequency of use. I assume it would align itself since it is moving things in and out of that area. I could be way off base though, as its been a few weeks since I read about it. I have one on backorder, so I may have better input after it arrives.
With hardware, you never know if it's going to work until you try it -- there are just too many critical variables involved. Let us knw how it tests out.
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.
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?
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".
Matthew, thank you for documenting your solution to this question.