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Disk cloning (Laufwerk klonen) doesn't work..?

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The Lenovo ThinkVantage Toolbox of my ThinkPad T410 told me that my disk is going to crash. So I bought a new one (not the same model), cloned my old HD (which is still starting with Windows 7 without problems!) to the new HD, replaced the HD in my T410 and tried to start up my computer. But it doesn't work! Can someone please help me what I'm doing wrong..?

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Do you have an external HD available?

Do a full disk mode Backup (selecting your entire disk, not just the system partition), saving the .tib archive to the external HD.
Place the new HD in your laptop, boot from the Acronis True Image Home Recovery Media (either CD-R or USB flash drive), and Restore the backup image from the external HD to your internal HD.

Thank you for your answer tuttle

A full disk mode Backup with external HD and my old USB 2.0 connection takes more than a weekend (I didn't mention it yet, but it's 500 GB). That's why I use another PC to clone it which only takes a few hours. And besides that with your solution I would need 3 HDs (the old one, the new one and a third one for the backup), which I don't have.

Cloning doesn't work with Acronis?

Are you actually using 500 GB on that drive? If not, then 500 GB won't be backed up. ATI backs up only the sectors that are in use, so if you're using 130 GB on a 500 GB drive, then only that 130 GB will be backed up.

Yes, Cloning works. But, Clone must be done in a specific way, and many users have trouble Cloning. Backup and Restore is safer.

Is not quite 500 GB but close and as I said I have no 3th HD. What is that very specific way that you mentioned and is there a description of it?

In the normal ThinkPads, the target disk needs to be inside the computer when being cloned. The source disk can be placed elsewhere such as in an external enclosure. After cloning, shutdown and disconnect source disk so computer boots first time with only the cloned disk attached.

Summary:
With new target disk inside computer.
Reboot using the TI bootable media CD.
1. From the CD Tools menu, use the add disk option and delete the new partitions on the replacement disk so disk becomes all unallocated space.
2. Repeat the clone. Manual mode suggested so you can oversee and confirm the partition sizes and which partition marked active.
3. After clone, shutdown and reboot with only the new disk attached.
4. Be very very careful to avoid mistakes. Users frequently mistakenly clone the blank overtop the good and lose it all. Be sure the computer is not working on batteries but is powered up.

GroverH wrote:
...1. From the CD Tools menu, use the add disk option and delete the new partitions on the replacement disk so disk becomes all unallocated space...

Okay that's confusing: I delete the partitions of which disk? The old one that has an error now or my new one? And won't it take for ever to clone the harddisk since I connect it with USB 2.0?

However I appreciate your help!!!

Ich würde zuerst alle Partitionen die Laufwerksbuchstaben haben, mit CHKDSK reparieren.

GroverH meint, die leere neue Festplatte in den ThinkPad T410 einbauen und die alte "Original" Festplatte als externes USB Laufwerk anschließen. Da die Boot CD von ATIH 2012 keine leeren, nicht initialisierten Festplatten sehen kann, muss die neue eingebaute Festplatte mit (Extras und Werkzeuge) "neues Laufwerk hinzufügen" initialisiert werden.

Wenn die neue Festplatte initialisiert wurde, mit Klonen weitermachen und "Manuell" auswählen, um die Partitionsgröße bei Bedarf anpassen zu können.

Wenn das klonen der Festplatte beendet ist sollte während des neustartens des Systems, die externe Festplatte mit dem "Original" des Klons abgeschaltet oder vom ThinkPad T410 entfernt werden. Es dürfen nicht beide Festplatten zusammen starten, weil sonst eine der Klone nach dem Systemstart nicht mehr bootfähig ist (Windows erlaubt keine zwei gleiche Festplatten).

Man sollte genau überlegen was man tut, "Klonen" verzeiht keine Fehler, man kann auch volle Festplatten leer klonen.

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Das heisst ich kann den Prozess nicht über Nacht laufen lassen, weil irgendwann nach dem Klonen neu gestartet wird und ich dann eben nicht "bereit stehe" um die externe HD zu lösen?

Danke G. Uphoff für die Hilfe auf Deutsch :)

Meiner Meinung nach wird nicht von alleine neu gestartet (ist schon länger her), wenn es passiert hat man vielleicht "vergeigt" weil man das Original beschädigt hat.

Wenn man das erste mal "klont" sollte man hellwach sein und auf keinen Fall müde. Fehler beim klonen werden sofort bestraft.