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Hi
First, I removed my HD from the notebook and connected it to my Desk Top (where Acronis THI lives) using USB.
Second, I connected a IDE hard drive (didn't have a spare notebook hard drive) to the Desk Top using USB.
Third, I cloned the notebook HD to the IDE.
Now I want to move the IDE clone to a new notebook hard drive (clone the clone?)
Problem is that the Desk Top can't sees the IDE. Accronis can't see it either. But, if I plug the IDE into another computer I can see the clone and all the files.

Whats happening?

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Software does not find USB external drive. The connectors are new like. there is very little use, removal and install use on these connectrs. I can not see where to look in the Acronis Help. Also the words used to look up in the help do not seem to match with what people type in to the help Forum. I looked at the Acronis Forum for help and the verbage was not in the help menue. Why use words I can not look up. How can you call a spade a spade when what you mean is A shovel?

Thanks, James Thornton

What brand name of laptop and operating system?

This is a different approach which should work.

1. Put the laptop disk back in its original location inside the laptop.
2. Boot from the TI Rescue CD and create a full disk backup to include all partitions or everything on the disk.

3. Direct the backup to an external disk (USB or eSata) and it will be one *.tib large backup file(assuming that the external disk is NTFS). Size of backup file will be about 65-70% of used space of laptop disk.

4. Shutdown and replace the laptop disk with a new blank replacement disk so the new is where the old was.
5. Attach the external disk again which contains the *.TIB backup file.
6. Boot again into the TrueImage Rescue CD.

7. Use the Restore option and point to the *.tib file located on external disk.
8. Checkmark the disk as what is to be restored so everything will be included in the restore.
9. Select the new blank disk as the target and also select the "Recover disk signature" option. Click proceed to begin the restore.

10. The restore should run roughly for an hour (?) or so and eventually show a successfully completed window.
11. Shutdown and disconnect the external and reboot the laptop.

The advantage of this procedure is that the source disk is not subject to the risk factors associated with a cloning operation (click my signature link below associated with clone).

http://forum.acronis.com/sites/default/files/forum/2009/12/7027/Disk-op…
http://forum.acronis.com/sites/default/files/forum/2009/12/7027/disk-op…