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Cloning HDD using USB

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Hi.
I'm new here and would like some advice. Please direct me to the right place if this is not the correct forum. I have an Acer laptop on which the HDD (Seagate) is getting full and have purchased a 1TB WD replacement. I've downloaded the WD version of Acronis and want to clone the original drive to the new one using a USB port, then replacing the drive.

First of all, it would not let me install this Acronis version until I plugged the new drive into a USB port, saying there was no WD drive on the system. When I plugged in the new drive, I was able to install Acronis, but when I clicked the "Clone" button I got "Analyzing", then the same message again. What could be the cause? I've cloned a drive before on a Seagate HDD on my Dell WinXP desktop, but that had 2 drive bays.

A little bit of disclosure: I don't have a actual USB-SATA cable, but was using a USB-IDE interface with a SATA-IDE adapter. Could it be this adapter that's preventing me from cloning? That's what I'm suspecting, so I've ordered a straight USB-SATA cable. Also, I seem to remember seeing something about USB not always working. Has that been solved?

If I can't get this cloning done via USB, could I use the DVD drive interface if I pull the DVD drive out? Is there such a cable?

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Well, no comments from the experts?

Never mind, I got a proper USB-SATA cable and got a bit further with this, but still no success.

It requires me to restart the computer for the cloning to proceed.

When restarting, I get the text "Starting Acronis Loader" or something like that.

Then I get a black screen that scrolls a bunch of stuff ending up with this:

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/V8cRrw5.jpg[/IMG]

At the bottom it says "Fixing recursive fault, but reboot is needed!"

The only way I can reboot from there is by manually powering off and on again and then the cloning does not proceed. When I do it again I get the same thing all over again. What's wrong? What else can I try?

oldyellr wrote:

It requires me to restart the computer for the cloning to proceed.

Which indicates to me that you're not following our recommended procedure.

Please search the forum for "Clone" to find the many posts outlining our recommended procedure. For example, we recommend that you clone only after booting from the ATI bootable Rescue Media, not from Windows. Also, it would be equally effective but safer to perform a full disk mode backup and restore it to the new drive, rather than to clone.

I was following the prompts and procedure step by step. I've used Acronis (Seagate Edition) before to clone a desktop drive and found it very simple. It just didn't work on this laptop. I ended up cloning the drive using Macrium Reflect with no problems.