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Migrate just sits there looking blue.

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Need to migrate 80 gig drive to new 180 gig drive. Both IDE (PATA) Old c: has about 50 gig in use. New d: is un-partitioned, unformatted. Pinned as Cable select. Cabled properly. Wizard sees them both. C is source, D is destination Clicking Start, and wizard wants to reboot.

On reboot, Acronis blue screen displays:
Operation 1 of 2

Hard disk: 1 --> 2

Drive letter: c:

File system NTFS

volume label: (blank)

Size 75 GB --> 149 GB

Both Current operation and Total progress remain at 0%. For 30 minutes, it was left to sit and there are no changes.

Is it supposed to partition and format the drive without displaying progress? Is it doing anything? Should one partition the new drive first, and format it? The Migrate PDF does not go in to what happens, only what to do.

Help!

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What brand is your PC?

Cable select might be the cause of the problem.

Do you have an external USB case you can put the new drive into?