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True Image 201 states that you can clone an active Windows system directly to a USB external drive or local drive without stopping your system and restarting Windows using bootable media.  However, I have tried to do this , and failed. The source disc is a 500GB SSD, and the intended destination drive is a USB 750GB SATA HDD, but although ATI sees the USB drive, and would let me select it as a source disc, it will not let me select it as the destination drive.  What am I doing wrong?

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Mach 2, welcome to these User Forums.

How is your USB 750GB SATA HDD formatted and what is currently on that drive?

Ideally, the target drive should be empty / have no OS type data or be formatted in NTFS as a single partition.

Cloning works on entire disk drives (all partitions) so everything on the target drive will be wiped as the first action of cloning.  If ATI 2018 detects what it thinks is a Windows OS on the target drive then it will want to force a reboot to do the cloning instead of doing this using Microsoft VSS to create snapshot data of the active Windows OS to write to the target drive.

The target drive should not be formatted using exFAT or other unsupported file systems.

The USB drive is empty, formatted as single NTFS partition.

Try deleting the NTFS partition so that all the drive space shows as Unallocated in Windows Disk Management.  Just tested doing a clone to a new / spare 1tb drive and this was quite happy to proceed with the target drive showing as unallocated space, doing this in Windows.

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