Clone disk not recognised by acronis
I did a clone of my laptop disk some months ago, and now want to do an update of the clone, but acronis 2018 does not recognize my drive. I went and used computer mgmt to assign a drive letter I to the Disk 1 and its J to the recovery partition. I can now see the drive via windows explorer.
If I now try to clone my C drive to the I drive, I get an a Warning error - unable to continue - this utility is designed to work with two or more disk drives.
Please recommend a way I can get acronis to do the clone.


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Steve,
Thanks for the suggestion -
I do know that to clone, I would need to overwrite the "cloned" disk, but before I do that I wanted to check some files on that clone drive.
If I go to the Add a new disk, it recognizes the cloned drive, but then immediately wants to delete the partitions.
Is there a way I can add the cloned drive (has a different name -- clone mmddyy ) to my system, look at the files, and then do a full clone ?
Also just out of curiousity, would the add a new disk fix the issue of having to manually assign a drive letter for the drive to be recognized?
Thanks
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Chris, if you connect the cloned drive externally via USB or in a Dock, that should normally give you access to the contents via a drive letter, or you could assign a drive letter via Windows disk management.
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Externally vis a USB to SATA adapters, enclosure or dock is best.
Alternatively, pull the original drive from the system and boot the clone to check it out.
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