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Trouble with cloning to external USB hard drive - PLEASE HELP!

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Hey Folks -

Need some immediate help! You all are great so I am sure I can get an answer here.

For my business I have a slew of identical desktop systems that I am refurbishing. They are identical models. I am trying to clone the HD on my first system so that I can simply install the cloned image on each of the rest of the desktops.

The issue is that I am using an external USB HD and I choose my source and destination drives. I then start the process and True Image starts to calculate. Next, it says I need to reboot in order to complete the operation. When I reboot, nothing happens and the disc was not cloned. This happens over and over. I am running Windows 7.

All I want to do is put an image of the first desktop on all of the other desktop systems.

Any suggestions or help would be appreciated.

Rick

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First start the clone via the recovery CD not from under Windows.

Try a reverse clone, that is place the new drive into the laptop and the old drive into the external USB caddy. You then need to boot from the recovery CD and clone from the USB to the desktop.

If the hardware is definitely identical, you could make an ordinary disk image and then recover that to each desktop again using the recovery CD to boot them.

Ideally the product you need is SnapDeploy3 - make one master image and it can then deploy either via network or a diskimage to all other PC's in one go.

Technically, you need an Acronis licence for each PC you are going to clone to,