fails (I tried 4 times). It gets almost to the end ("time remaining 5 minutes") and then tells me "cloning failed; please see l
Dear Friends,
I am trying to replace the 2TB HDD of my HP laptop System Name LAPTOP-HENVS1UC running Windows 10 Version 10.0.18362 Build 18362 with Crucial MX500 (Model Crucial CT500MX500SSD1) but every time I try to clone the HDD using Acronis,True Image 2019 23.0.1.21500 in automatic mode, the cloning runs for between 3 and 5 hours and then fails (I tried 4 times). It gets almost to the end ("time remaining 5 minutes") and then tells me "cloning failed; please see log" but I can't find a log. I am following the Crucial instructions to connect the new MX500 SSD to the USB3 port for cloning.
Thank you indeed for your help.
Kind regards


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Thank you indeed Ian.
I am so sorry; my computer knowledge goes back to the days of the RAIR Black Box and such as DEC PDP11 :-)
Yes; I am doing live clone from within Windows using Acronis True Image for Crucial. I guessed that it was 2019 from the create date.
I followed the Crucial install process at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEuKROhbzFE&t=5s
Do you suggest I first try installing the new drive and then connect the old drive externally to clone using the USB connect cable?
Yes existing drive is 2TB with only about 350GB used. New Crucial MX500 SSD is nominally 500GB (approx 485).
I'm not sure how many partitions but there are two drives: C: Windows and D: Recovery
How would I do a backup/restore please? Using the Backup tool on ATI? Could I backup onto the 2TB HDD then restore to the SSD? What precautions do I need to take? I'm guessing that the Backup file looks a little different from the "cloned" .....
Crucial suggested the following: https://uk.crucial.com/support/articles-faq-ssd/clone-almost-finishes-f… but I was unsure whether this was my problem and also a little afraid of wrecking the drive :-(
Thank you indeed Ian. I will be very pleased to be able to get the new SSD into the laptop as all my life is in there......
Kind regards, Rich
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Rich, the core issue here is simply that the Crucial guidance is not correct for laptops!
Please see KB 56634: Acronis True Image: how to clone a disk - and review the step by step guide given there.
Note: the first section of the above KB document directs laptop users to KB 2931: How to clone a laptop hard drive - and has the following paragraph:
It is recommended to put the new drive in the laptop first, and connect the old drive via USB. Otherwise you will may not be able to boot from the new cloned drive, as Acronis True Image will apply a bootability fix to the new disk and adjust the boot settings of the target drive to boot from USB. If the new disk is inside the laptop, the boot settings will be automatically adjusted to boot from internal disk. As such, hard disk bays cannot be used for target disks. For example, if you have a target hard disk (i.e. the new disk to which you clone, and from which you intend to boot the machine) in a bay, and not physically inside the laptop, the target hard disk will be unbootable after the cloning.
To do the above, use the Acronis Rescue Media to boot the laptop using the same BIOS boot mode as used by your Windows OS on the laptop. You can confirm the BIOS mode by running the msinfo32 command in Windows where this is shown in the right panel and for most modern computers should show as UEFI otherwise will show as either Legacy or the name of the disk drive for older computers.
See KB 61632: Acronis True Image 2019: how to create bootable media
Please make a full backup of your current working source disk before continuing with the above actions.
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Thank you; thank you guys. I will try that today.
Kind regards,
Rich
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