Cloning SSD to SSD fails
I purchased Disk Director 2011 to perform 1 task: To clone my nearly full 64gb SSD to a larger 128gb SSD as I was running low on space. Disconnected my backup 1tb WD and connected the new SSD. Did a proportional clone with NT signature and then removed the old drive. Reconnected the backup and installed the new SSD clone. Booted and seemed fine, however, after several boots the drive would no longer boot. Re-cloned the drive again using the same procedure and it booted once, tried to open a different user and it choked saying an invalid copy of Win7 build 7600 in the lwr rt corner.
Really disappointed after spending $50+ and hours scouring the forums as Acronis doen't have a user friendly support system. They want you to pay for support they say exists on the box? Still haven't found the right answer to resolve the issue. If anyone has a novice explaination on how to resolve this I'm listening. I have too much info on the disk to start from scratch and that is the only reason I chose this Acronis. I want to think Acronis will stand by their product and offer a no-nonse basic user explaination.
At least my 64gb still works.
So what you are saying is to move the source drive (current SSD) to the backup HDD position, install the new drive in the primary, and then use the Acronis CD to boot. After the boot into Acronis, select the backup drive ( working SSD) as a source and the new drive as the target and clone with NT signature.
Yes, that is my suggestion. After cloning, shutdown and disconnect (remove data cable) any other bootable drive attached. You want Windows to see only the newly cloned drive on first bootup.
It might be helpful before you start to do a screen capture of your Windows Disk management graphical view and post that on the forum. This could be especially helpful should you have difficulties in getting your preferred partition sizes.
If you choose the manual move option, you can expect your screen to look similar to Image 1 below. The partitions sizes that you will see on your screen is the proportioned sizes that TrueImage wants to put on your disk. Their suggested sizes is based purely on a mathmatical assignment of space and may or may not be what you want for your disk.
If you accept their sizes, you can proceed without any further adjustments.
If you want to modify those sizes to your own choosing, then perform the steps shownn in Image 2 below.
After making the changes on your screen as suggested by Image 2, then your screen will change to look like Image 3. You should see the partition number, the starting sector and ending sector--as suggested by TrueImage.
Based on the new display, you are in a better position to decide how to proceed. You can resize the screens to your own custom sizes.
If you need to want to change the starting sector, you can experiment with the steps shown in Image 4.
When configuring the sizes, you may need to click accept in order to see the changes made but you can right click on the same partition and resize it over and over until you get what you want.
If during your simulation/actual, you have questions, then cancel and ask your questions. Don't click the proceed button until you are satisfied with your projected results.
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Very nice Tutorial GroverH.
Two questions.
Does this apply to True Image 2011 ?
When cloning to a raw brand new SSD, does the SSD need to be formatted/ partitioned etc ?
Thanks.
Snakeyes,
Yes, this applies to 2011, or 2010, or 2009
When cloning (or restoring to a new disk), the preferred condition is for the new disk to be not partitioned and not formatted also referred to as unallocated.