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CLONING: HUGE delay in 'finding' the new disk

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Pardon if this has already been 'asked and answered', but I guess I don't see this anywhere so I'll just put it out there..

It seems as though when I attempt to clone a hard disk, Acronis True Image 2016 seems to takes forever (well more than just a few minutes, anyway) to 'find' the new hard disk I need to clone to.  In this case (as of today), it is the 'failing' 500GB hard disk in my wife's laptop that I want to clone to a new (albeit smaller) SSD. The existing 500 GB Samsung has less than 40 GB 'in use' by Windows (although there are always the perennial 'hidden' and "recovery" partitions and the like), so this new 256 GB OCZ is MORE than capable of accepting the existing Windows 10 Pro system.

To explain: I'm using MY PC to perfrom the clone to the new SSD, and as I begin the clone program, all the connected disks appear (even the new OCZ SSD that is brand new and has no partitions), and yet once I have selected the Samsung 500GB hard disk that is failing, it seems to take my PC more than 5 minutes to 'locate' the SSD 'target' disk that had been visible earlier as a 'source' disk.   FYI: My PC 'specs' are: i5-2700K @ 3.2GHz, 16 GB DDR3 SDRAM, Nvidia GT 960 w/ 4 GB SDRAM, 1-512 GB SSD (Sandisk), 2-1 TB HDDs (Seagate).  And BOTH the Samsung HDD and the SSD are connected via SATA interfaces to my system...

Now, it HAS been quite a while since I had to do a 'clone', and I JUST this past week 'upgraded' TrueImage 2016 to the latest release when it popped up, but I certainly don't remembert Acronis requiring THIS lengthy amount of time to simply 'locate' a new disk for cloning.  Sure, there's always been a 'short delay' as it "examines" the system and then 'populates' the Acronis interface, but I've nver seen it take THIS long when I last had to perfrom this task.

Now, I LIKE to think I keep my PC pretty 'clean', and there's just the 'typical' software installed (IE: Windows 10 with Office 2016, Firefox, Roxio Media Creator 2011, Norton Security Deluxe, etc. etc. Nothing that I'd expect to have any affect on Acronis, for sure..) but WOW!! This is like waiting for a glacier to move ..!  So... What the heck is going on here..? As of right now, it APPEARS that the clone IS working OK (right now it says 76% complete and no errors seen), but WOW!! ...  I had to go upstairs and grab a beer while I WAITED for Acronis to just list the disks again after I chose the 'target'.. . and I STILL had to wait for this 'list' to appear when I came back downstairs.   And as I write this, it has just now completed, and I see 'valid' data on the SSD, so I will presume everything is AOK...

But... Uh - Not normal, right?   Helpful info or suggestions..?

 

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bzinn, there doesn't seem to be any desire for other users in the forums to either support or deny your experience of delays being encountered in 'finding' a target drive when doing cloning with Acronis True Image.

I have to confess that I very rarely use cloning and do not recall having found any similar delays on those occasions when I have done so.

Doing cloning using the Acronis application running within Windows would not normally be recommended, in particular, if the running Windows OS drive is the source for the clone operation, but in your scenario, with both the source drive and target drives both connected to a different system running ATIH, then this shouldn't be an issue - I have certainly done this myself recently (probably some months ago now) and had no problems doing so.

The one disadvantage of doing this type of operation from within Windows is the potential for either the Windows OS or security applications getting 'involved' with the source or target drives, scanning or indexing etc, which in turn could introduce some delays.

Hopefully, your clone that did complete as per your update above has worked OK when you have tested this as the new Windows boot device.

Yep.. guess I thought I wasn't alone in this, but arguably... I guess so....  And what you say was pretty much my thought too...  I'd much prefer a 'clean' install of Windows and the 'necessary' software, but I was 'pressed for time' and since I don't often need to clone (and since "it was there..." and "handy") I figured "Well... WTH I'll just use Acronis to get his done ...".   Simple 'convenience' and "speed" (...or so I thought ...).  But it's just that it surprised me that it 'hesitated' SO very long, because, when last I had done this (about - uh, maybe a year or two ago..?) it certainly didn't SEEM to act this way... (at least I didn't remember it anyway..) , so when I experienced this,  I just 'defaulted' to the consideratio0n that something was amiss..

But, yes, it DID complete with no errors, and it seems to be 100% now that it is in use in her laptop (and about 4X faster, of course..), but I thought I might just throw this out there to see if anyone else had experiecnced something like this - and if possibly anyone may have had any clue as to WHY it might act like this...  Yet, on those few occasions when I had done this perviously, I'd never experienced any issues with AV or other protective software (we us Norton Security, here...), but "there's alwasy a first time", no doubt.

But, thanks for the input, Steve...  Maybe 'once upon a time' someone else might encounter this, and locate this thread, and maybe THEY'LL be persistent enought to get to the bottom of why this might occur...  So, potentially THEN I might find out...

But since I am "officially retired", now, it probably won't be me determining this ...

BTW, Steve, your 'clone' lives in Broomfield, CO - and happens to be my brother-in-law... Just sayin'...

Glad to hear that the clone is installed and working faster - hope it will be that way for a good long time!

Welcome to the retirement club - been a member for nearly 9 years now - retired on July 4th from IBM which I though was very appropriate!

Am sure that there are lots of 'clones' scattered around the world, both in terms of sharing the same name but also those that are doppelgangers in terms of looks too...

I don't mean to over post or beat any topic subject to death. But I'm stuck still trying to figure out how to get my already cloned C drive off my WD My Passport Ultra USB3 drive, back onto/ into my C: drive "as-in" Over-write the C; drive with the cloned copy and replace the OS and program files.
Does a simple step by step video or text exist for how to accomplish a clone drive restore with out the need to go back to college to get a degree for it?

Patricia, as per my reply to you in the other post you wrote in, please check that you are looking at a Clone and not looking at a Backup .TIB image file on your WD My Passport drive.

If you truly do have a Clone then you essentially have a second copy of the original OS drive written to the My Passport, which will be a problem because in order to use that Clone, you would need to remove the drive from the My Passport casing and install it as the internal drive for your computer!

If you actually have a full disk & partitions backup .TIB file on your My Passport drive, then you need to create the Acronis Rescue Media (on CD or USB stick) then boot from that media with the My Passport drive connected, and then take the Recovery option to restore your computer from the backup image.

See post: 128057: [Tutorial] How to recover an entire disk backup for a tutorial on doing full disk restore.