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Can't clone HDD to SDD in Visat or with boot DVD

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Unable to clone an 80 GB HDD with Vista Business OS to a USB connected 120 GB Crucial solid-state SATA drive (SSD) when running a Acronis clone either from the boot disk or from within Vista.

However, ACRONIS was able to create and name two partitions on the SSD and then format them.

Will a sector by sector image backup do the trick?

Help!! UPS is scheduled to pick up the SSD and return it to Amazon today.

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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.

Create a full disk mode Backup. Select the checkbox for the entire disk (not just individual partitions). For this option, switch to disk mode (upper right blue link) until you see disks and not partitions to select. Select the disk. That ensures that you have everything you need, and you won't need to understand how the disk is laid out with possible hidden partitions. A full disk mode Backup captures everything, and is the simplest, safest backup method.

George,

You didn't mention what actually happens or doesn't happen when you attempt to clone.

Probably too late, but depending on the answer to the above question, a 'reverse' clone might have worked. That is the source drive is made external and the destination drive is temporarily connected to the PC/Laptop. Then using the recovery CD clone from the external to the internal.

Any cloning of a disk that contains th eoperating system whould be cloned from the recovery environment, not form within Windows. Non OS disks cab be cloned from Windows with few problems.

Ordinarily as Tuttles says, making images is the more reliable and easier route. In your case, if sending a disk back or a PC for repair as a one off, a clone is probably the least expensive option.