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ATI 2016 Drive Cloning in ATI Bootable Rescue Media mode

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This is a follow-up to my First post earlier today.

Operating System is Windows 10 64 bit in Toshiba S55-A5334 laptop. Am trying to clone old SATA HDD to new SSD, each having 1 TB capacity. I disabled Secure Boot in the Syetem BIOS. I figured out how to create a bootable ATI Rescue Media on DVD after changing my Boot Order to DVD Drive as first boot option. I installed the new SSD internally and connected the old HDD via a Sabrent USB 3.0 Adapter. I restarted the laptop in ATI Rescue Media mode and chose Option 2 to load ATI 2016, selecting Clone mode. I selected the Source and Target drives, confirmed MBR format, Proportional partition sizing, and clicked Proceed. The process is ongoing now, with 1 hour and 20 minutes at the outset. Process continues; will report again upon completion. Thanks! Ken

My First post said:

I purchased ATI 2016 today, Feb 20, 2016. I need technical support to run the Acronis Bootable Recovery on my USB Flash drive and clone my old 1 TB OEM hard drive to my new 1 TB SSD hard drive in my Toshiba S55T-A5334 core i7 laptop. I just purchased Acronis True Image 2016 and I am having difficulty in cloning my old hard drive onto the new hard drive. Please advise me of the steps to use the ATI Bootable Recovery files on my USB flash drive and then clone my old hard drive to my new hard drive.  I used ATI Bootable Rescue Media Builder on my USB Flash Drive.  

 

1. What version of ATI are you using?  The only versions approved for Windows 10 are ATI 2015 and ATI 2016.

[ATI 2016 full license purchased today on Feb 20, 2016]

2. Is the backup HDD an internal drive, or is it connected via USB?

[The backup HDD is intended as my primary, internal hard drive, but is currently connected via Sabrent USB 3.0 Adapter]

3. Make & model of your PC?  Is your system disk encrypted?  Do you have any recent backups of your system disk?

[Toshiba Satellite S55T-A5334. System disc not encrypted. Secure Boot is disabled. I used Windows Backup & Restore to create backup file to another external USB hard drive, but I do not know if it is usable.]

4. Do you have an ATI rescue media disk or USB?

[I have created an ATI Bootable Rescue Media Builder on my USB Flash Drive.]

5. Is your system disk formatted GPT or MBR?

[Old hard drive may be GPT, but I am not certain. New SSD 1TB HDD is MBR.]

I need ATI Tech Support to help me.

Thank you. Ken

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Sunday morning, 12:45 AM, Feb 21, 2016.

This is a follow-up to my First and Second posts earlier today.

Operating System is Windows 10 64 bit in Toshiba S55-A5334 laptop. Am trying to clone old SATA HDD to new SSD, each having 1 TB capacity. I disabled Secure Boot in the Syetem BIOS. I figured out how to create a bootable ATI Rescue Media on DVD after changing my Boot Order to DVD Drive as first boot option. I installed the new SSD internally and connected the old HDD via a Sabrent USB 3.0 Adapter. I restarted the laptop in ATI Rescue Media mode and chose Option 2 to load ATI 2016, selecting Clone mode. I selected the Source and Target drives, confirmed MBR format, Proportional partition sizing, and clicked Proceed. The process is ongoing now, with 1 hour and 20 minutes at the outset. Process continues; will report again upon completion. Thanks! Ken

Failed to clone successfully again. ATI 2016 ran for almost 2 hours and processed sector by sector of old HDD to new SSD internally mounted in my laptop. ATI 2016 reported success and closed. My laptop still won't boot into Windows 10 and displays:

"Checking Media Presence. No Media Present."

"Reboot and Select proper Boot Device or Insert Boot Media in Selected Boot Device and Press a Key."

I am frustrated. I need your advice and guidance. Ken

Go back into your machine bios and make certain the new cloned drive is listed first in boot order.  Make sure the old disk is not attached to the machine as well.

This doesn't address the clone issue itself, but may give you better results.  I've never used clone because of these types of issues (other forums show cloning failing when their are erros on the disk that must first be cleaned with chkdsk).  Instead of cloning, I have gotten into the habit of using the full disk backup option, saving the image to another external drive and then booting to the Acronis bootable recovery media and pushing the image back to the new drive.  This has the same effect of cloning, but (1), gives you an actual backup you can always use later to restore/recover from and (2) doesn't seem to be impacted by bad sectors on the original disk that seems to prevent the "clone" job from running for others.  The outcome will be exactly the same as the clone, but seems to work more reliably in the long run.  It's just a suggestion, but I've had very good success with this method. 

Bobbo, this support is very much appreciated and I will try all of your recommendations. I need to get this new drive operating with my old drive apps and features. Thanks again for responding on a Sunday. More later. Ken

Bobbo, I tried Enchantech's recommendation to reset BIOS for new drive as first boot device. (Safe Boot still disabled in BIOS.) New drive still won't boot into Windows 10. QUESTION for you: You recommended final step as, " ... booting to the Acronis bootable recovery media and pushing the image back to the new drive." When I "push the image back to the new drive", should the new drive be already internally mounted in the laptop? And should I use Acronis True Image 2016 within Windows 10 or should I be using the Acronis bootable recovery media to push the image back to the new drive? Please bear with me on these details. Thank you very much. Ken

Kenneth Leon wrote:

Bobbo, I tried Enchantech's recommendation to reset BIOS for new drive as first boot device. (Safe Boot still disabled in BIOS.) New drive still won't boot into Windows 10. QUESTION for you: You recommended final step as, " ... booting to the Acronis bootable recovery media and pushing the image back to the new drive." When I "push the image back to the new drive", should the new drive be already internally mounted in the laptop? And should I use Acronis True Image 2016 within Windows 10 or should I be using the Acronis bootable recovery media to push the image back to the new drive? Please bear with me on these details. Thank you very much. Ken

I personally prefer using Acronis offline bootable media for creating the image of the original system and don't recommend using Acronis in Windows if possible.  Both should work, but you eliminate Windows issues and don't have to rely on Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service when you do everything wiht the offline bootable recovery media.  You can then save that image wherever you please (external hard drive should be fine).

Once you have your good image... when you push the image back, you can do so to the primary drive while it is installed in the primary internal SATA slot of your machine, or you can have already taken it out and push it while attached to an external dock, external hard drive case via USB, etc. - it really doesn't matter.  The main thing, is when you take your system image, that you get the entire disk - ALL partitions.  You do not have to sector by sector, and I would recommend not.  When you push the image back (again, I recommend while using the offline bootable recovery media as well), you just want to make sure that again, during your recovery, you select all partitions again if this is going into the exact same system... otherwise, you can select everythign except for MBR disk 0, which is recommened to not select if going into a different system.  I typcially push everything back though and have not had any problems.  

The only other thing is to make sure that if you do push to another drive (say USB), that you remove the original (If you're pushing it to a new or different drive) and don't have the original attached when you boot to the new one.  You dont' want two different drives with the same hardware ID installed when attempting to boot as that will confuse the bios and cause boot issues there too.

Long story short... 1) use external bootable Acronis recovery media and take your system image, making sure you get the entire drive and all paritions

2) push the image back to the desired drive, select the full disk/all paritions if going back to the same system and/or drive.  If upgrading drive or going into a different system, you can unselect MBR Disk 0.

3) ONce the image push is done, if you have the original drive and a new drive with your image, disconnect the original drive and put the new drive in it's place.  If you pushed to the original drive, you're fine.