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Clone does not work

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Win 7 64, HP P6320y Desktop with 1 TB drive 3 partitions
Installation of Acronis 14 no problem.
installed Crucial M500 SSD 480 GB partition and format
run clone begins process but does not complete.

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My best advice: Do not Clone! Instead, do one extra step and create a full disk Backup to an external drive. If ever you need to return to that image state, you would do a full disk Restore/Recovery.

There is rarely a need to Clone. Really, Backup is safer and more flexible. Many users encounter problems Cloning which they would not have if they had instead used Backup.

1. Don't use Clone. Do a full disk mode Backup, selecting the entire disk, and a Restore. The end result will be the same as Clone, but with many advantages.

2. Check out the many user guides and tutorials in the left margin of this forum, particularly Getting Started and Grover's True Image Guides which are illustrated with step-by-step screenshots.
In particular, 29618: Grover's new backup and restore guides http://forum.acronis.com/forum/29618

A full disk backup, selecting the disk checkbox rather than individual partitions, includes everything. It includes everything that a clone would include.

The difference is that while a clone immediately writes that information a single time to another drive, a backup is saved as a compressed .tib archive. As such, multiple .tib archives may be saved to a single backup drive, allowing for greater redundancy, security and flexibility.

Once a full disk image .tib archive is restored to a drive, the result is the same as if that drive had been the target of a clone done on the date and time that the backup archive was created.

Clone is riskier because we've seen situations where users mistakenly choose the wrong drive to clone from and to, thus wiping out their system drive.

David,
I would concur with the comments by MVP Tuttle.

Due note that the clone procedure is best done when booted from the TI Recovery CD so that Windows is not involved. If you choose to continue with the clone procedure.

1. Boot from the TI Recovery CD.
2. Use the Add disk option on the SD so the disk is initialized and all space becomes unallocated.
3, Perfrom the clone. Use manual mode to control the partition sizes, otherwise, if automatic mode, the program will control the partition sizes.
4. Be careful. Any user mistake can spoil your 1 tb hard drive.

PS: Have you looked at your 1TB disk from inside the Windows Disk Management graphicl view. You really need to know information about your disk such as
how many partitions
What is the partition sequnce
Their sizes (some system partitiions, if boot partition, should not be resized.)
which partition is active