Acronis True Image WD Edition fails to clone drive
Greetings. I am operating two WD drives in a RAID (C:) and a third WD drive (F:). Recently the RAID screen in BIOS before Windows (Win 7 32 bit) loads has been indicating errors on one of the drives. The WD diagnostic tools indicate bad sectors present. So far I've had one instance where Windows fails to load and I need the Recovery Tool to get to the desktop; I'm afraid of more, which is why I'm cloning.
I am trying to use Acronis True Image WD Edition to clone the data off of C: (~230 GB of data) onto F: (~1.3 TB). The program has a minor glitch in that it doesn't work. If I don't select "Ignore Bad Sectors" I get the dreaded
"Acronis
Loading, please wait...
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(1,0)"
error. That happened 3 of the 5 times I've run it. The other two times, where I did select that, Acronis does not get the kernel panic error, partially loads into a GUI, then terminates after one or two minutes and the PC restarts without transferring any data to the new drive. No errors are announced, and the log in Acronis ends at "Locking Partition C:...".
Anybody have any insight as to what's going on here?
((Additionally, will running CHKDSK /r on a failing hard drive disk kill it?))
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Thanks for the help.
I had some trouble burning a CD, but that does work and I ran Acronis once. Unfortunately, my 2 old HDDs are in RAID 0 and the new volume is non-RAID, so that didn't work.
Can you provide more info on a disk and partition backup? Thanks!
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Restoring a RAID 0 onto a non-RAID might require a change of driver, and that requires you use the universal restore feature of ATI that comes with the Plus Pack.
Frankly, if you have the time and the option, you should reinstall your OS and your apps and then restore your content from the backup.
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Thankfully I do have the Windows 7 CD and can install the OS onto the new HDD -- is the functionality the same as cloning the hard drive, in that case? (That is to say, will it essentially be a "clone" of my current system, or will I lose data?)
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Foxtrot Tango,
You will have to reinstall the OS and the applications (separate things). Then you can move the content (pictures, movies, documents, etc.) from the archive onto the new disk.
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