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Failure to Clone with Acronis

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Running Windows 7 Home Premium I am unable to Clone my "C" drive which is 500gb to a USB connected 200gb drive.
After 4 attempts it actually went through the whole process of Cloning and showed "Successful" but the Cloned drive was no longer Recognised, on re-selecting the drive so that it showed up in "My Computer" once more it was still "Empty".
Any ideas most welcome please.
Rab

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David,

Are you positive you want to Clone? Or do you want to have a backup of your C:\ in case your C:\ disk dies and you need to restore... If this is the latter, you should choose "disk and partition backup" not clone. In that case, we have to fix your usb drive now:
- right click on my computer, choose manage > storage > disk management
- find you USB drive (probably in the higher disk numbers). Make sure the size is correct.
- if you see a partition on that disk, right click on it and select delete partition until there is no partition left
- then, right click on the hatched space of that disk and recreate a new primary partition (not active)
- then right click on the new partition, choose change drive letter, and assign a letter you like down in the alphabet list. For example X. Then launch ATI, and start a disk and partition backup, swith to disk mode, select your system disk to be backed up, verify your destination disk is your USB disk X:

If you want to do a clone for whatever other reason, make sure your read Grovers' true image guides. See the useful links in the forums.

Pat,

Many thanks for all the info.
I was hoping to actually "Clone" so that I could just Swap drives if my "C" drive Died, this would, if I am correct, save me from having to "Re-load" all my Programs?
I generally "Backup" my "C" drive at intervals to another USB Drive used only for this purpose.

I will go through the instructions on my 200gb USB Drive you have posted for me, and give it another try, this will take me a little time though.

Regards,

David,
Should you have a really bad virus; or a hard drive failure; or want to move to a larger drive, the type of backup is a complete backup of the disk which includes all partitions including the ones which are recovery or without drive letters. Having such a complete backup provides everything you need to perform such a task. If you are using Windows 7 or Vista, these have special partitions and these should be included in the backup if you wish to to duplicate the disk for any reason.

Single partition backup from inside Windows

Backup of entire disk to include everything.

Hello Grover,

Thanks for that, I feel much better for that. Have had 2 decent replies on this matter.

Regards

Be aware of the risk when cloning.
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/17852#comment-53851

If cloning, I prefer the manual mode so I can control size of partitions to prevent TI from resizing those which should not be expanded.

As Pat mentioned above, click on my signature below and review items in #3--particularly 3-BB, 3-CC & 3-DD.

Am doing Disc and Partition Backup, taking 2 hours. 10 mins left to completion.
This should complete OK I hope.

Completed.....All looks OK.

Thanks for all assistance.

Cheers

Your next step for you is to verify that you can recover a file or two to a new location or new folder.

Boot from the TI REscue CD and choose the Restore "Files & Folders (not partitions) and choose your new backup and restore a few files to a new location.