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Failure of True Image home 2010 to completely clone disk w Win 7 Ultimate

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Just transferred to a new Dell XPS 8100 w/ Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit. Using a 1TB Segate drive via a USB external dock. The C:\ drive has a hidden revovery partition in addition to the main partition. Tried to clone the drive w/ Acronis True Image Home 2010: build 7046. The program seems to go through the motions of cloning but some time after the reboot and after the cloning process begins, the computer seems to go into a "sleep mode" where the monitors become blank (they say no signal being supplied) pressing the keyboard does nothing and I cant tell whats happening. Have to manually shut off the computer power. On reboot I get a breif message to the effect that cloning was successful but when you look at the cloned disk, all you can see is the "recovery" partition of the drive. The rest is unallocated.
When I first installed the program I was able to make a clone but have not been able to do it again. Have tried multiple times. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!

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Its not clear exactly what you were doing. Did you clone an older system to a newer system? If you did this will not work. Or did you replace a hard drive with a larger one?

I take it you are trying to replace your your old hard disc with a newer one that is currently connected via a USB external drive enclosure?

Have you tried cloning using a True Image boot disc? That tends to be more reliable.

Have you tried connecting both discs via the internal SATA interfaces?

Thomas and Alan:
I was just trying to clone the computers drive to have backup just in case of a hard drive crash. That way I can just swap out the dead hard drive (have had 3 dead drives in the past 3 years on my other computers). I routinely clone the internal drives on all my computers just in case but this time had the problem I mentioned ** see below.

I am using an External SATA HDD dock that connects via a USB 2.0 connection, that way I dont have to open the case. I have not tried to install the drive internally to use the direct SATA cable yet on this machine but have done it in the past on other computers. That may be my next step.

**The external dock method actually worked the first time I cloned the drive on this new system but when I tried to do it one week later I encountered the problems previously mentioned. I also tried using 2 different Docks and different USB cables. I may try to uninstall and reinstall True Image home after that.

Thanks to all for the imput
Rick S.

As a follow up: I used a different drive to back up to and the clone process worked. Perhaps there was something wrong with the original drive I was trying to use. Will see over the next few weeks if it continues to work.