Clone of 500GB encrypted to 500GB drive does not work
I run Acronis® True Image Home® version 10.0 (build 4,942).
I have 2 Seagate Momentus 7200.4 500GB SATA drives (ST9500420AS). One is in my laptop and I have PGP whole disk encryption installed. I attach the other one via USB and boot from the Acronis disk to clone drive 1 to drive2. It recognizes both drives but gives me an error that the destination drive is too small.
I decrypted drive 1 and then clone worked.
I swapped drives so that the original "too small drive 2" was in my laptop, encrypted it and tried the clone again. Same "too small" error.
I swapped the 500GB drive 2 for a 750GB drive and clone worked.
Prior to moving to the 500GB drive I used to clone the laptop encrypted 250GB SATA drive to a 250GB IDE drive (via USB) with no problem.
Why can I not clone 500GB encrypted drive to an identical 500GB drive?
Thanks.
Claude Allard