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I cloned my original 500gb via USB to 750gb wd disk in laptop. C drive was copied successfully but Data drive D did not. Then I read the manual and proceeded to run it through the cloning program. At one stage acronis asked for reboot and on doing it stated that acronis cant find the boot and had to press the enter key to restart the computer. Hoping someone will guide me through this mess.
Thanks Choi

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Doesn't sound like you actually performed a clone operation in your first attempt. Cloning creates a mirror image of one physical drive to another. If you had done that then you would have had both C: and D: as you describe copied onto the new disk. Think you must have performed a backup and restore on the first attempt and I suspect that was successful but your backup was only of the C: partiton on the 500GB drive.

You then decided to actually use the clone feature of TI and that failed as described. Are you or did you run the clone procedure from a Bootable Media Disk that you created or did you attempt this action from the TI installed program on your machine?

Presuming your 500GB original disk is still bootable, you should first create a Bootable Media Disk. You can download the .iso file for it from your Acronis Account page. Burn that image onto a CD or USB stick, your preference. Change boot order in your bios to boot from the device you have created and boot to it to run the clone procedure. You will need to at this same time have your old disk attached to the computer via USB and have the new disk installed in the computer.

Run the clone procedure and choose a mode method of either AS IS or Porportional. Attaching link so you can see the differences. This should produce a working disk.

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

Clone should be used only by advanced users who know what they are doing. It is riskier and can result in a loss of data and a failed system. Create a full disk mode backup and restore it, using the bootable Rescue Media, to the new disk, as it's far safer.

Thanks Robert. Do I have to change status in bios. According to manual Acronis Start-up Manager allows us to recover our computer at boot time before OS starts by pressing F11 key at boot time. Please confirm whether this is correct. Thanks Bhaskaran Choi

To boot into the Bootable Media Disk you must change boot order in bios so that the device where the Bootable Media is located is first in the boot order list. The F11 recovery is used if you have a failed system to recover.

Hi robert. Thanks for your help I managed to clone the hard drive to a 1gb wd disk. I then removed the old drive and am using my laptop successfully.
I would like to erase the old drive and use it as external drive. Can anyone let me know the safest method.

Safest method would be to just reformat the disk in Windows Disk Management screen.