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I have an HP desktop computer running Windows 8.1 with a 500gb hard drive. I would like to upgrade the 500gb drive to a WD green 1tb drive. The 500gb drive has a Recovery Partition that I would like to keep on the drive.

However, I would like to clone the 500gb drive to the new drive. Basically, I would the new drive to be an exact copy of the 500gb drive.

Using ATI 2014, can I clone the 500gb drive?

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hello:

I am trying to clone two exact drives Seagate Barracuda 1TB from a bootable disk created recently. I did purchase the 2014 version and have made a copy clone recently with no problem.
I checked and verify the drives matched; the only difference is one was manufactured a year ago.
the drive is seen by the Acronis boot disk, but is greyed out.
I did try few times with no luck.

I did do a full sector backup of the original drive to a portable HD and I am now doing a recovery to the new disk.

thanks

Did you prepare the new disk for use using TI? Does the new disk show in Windows Disk Management?

yes. it does show new disk in Windows 7 pro
It showed unallocated and that did not work.

I then did a quick format and it still does not work.

If cloning, the recommended procedure is to perform the clone when booted from the TI REcovery CD.

Remove the old source disk and place it elsewhere.
Install the new target disk inside the computer on same connectors as old.
Perform the clone.
Depending upon how the old drive is partitioned, you may need to perform the clone using the manual method in order to control the partition sizes.
After cloning. reboot with only the new disk attached.

I Tried to clone to a 1tb hard drive, most of windows 7 programs would not work after the cloning, for example could not access windows update, dould not down load on IE said could not locate files, etc, etc, is 1TB to large a drive for TI to clone to? PC is a Dell studio 435T. really need that big drive
thanks very much

Drive size is not an issue. Following the correct procedures to successfully clone a drive is most important. Usually problems with cloning occur because the procedure is attempted while the source disk is in an active or live state. Cloning should be done when machine is booted from a recovery media disk. If machine is a laptop destination drive must be installed in machine and source drive installed in an external enclosure to clone successfully. It is recommended that a fule disk backup and restore be performed instead of a clone due to potential data corruption when cloning.

Here are links:

https://forum.acronis.com/system/files/mvp/user285/misc/cloning-risks.g…

http://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/ATIH2014/index.html#…

Make sure you fully read and understand all contents of second link before attempting the clone procedure again.

clone was done exacgtly show on TI new disk install in pc, the source disk was in a usb enclosure, and the I used the TI recover media to boot from and the new disk was installed in the pc, the scource disk was installed in a usb enclosure. I've cloned before and never had an issue where any of the source files where corruppted and unreparable.

Make sure you fully read and understand all contents of second link before attempting the clone procedure again

Kind of an insult assuming ghe person is a newbe, been using TI since version 6. Obvioously with something went wrong with the clone, and I had to return to the oignal disc. a more positive responce other then make sure you read instructions wooul be appreciated.

None of us know what we don't know or the skill level of each and all of us sometimes overlooks the obvious.
Don't take offense so easily. Each responder is just trying to help those asking for assistance .

Did you use automatic method or manual method or clone "as is"?

Is this the most current build of TI?

It might help if we knew more info about both the source and target disks. Size and type of both.
As TI does not clone GPT disks, we will assumed we are discussing MBR disks.

Is this usb2 or usb3 connectors? USB2 or 3 cables?

Are you interested in tryling to restore a disk option backkup. What you describe might be resolved by restoing the "Recovery disk signature". Be sure only the new disk is attached until you get your issues resolved.