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Clone process doesn't appear to continue after reboot

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I am using Windows XP with a hard disk that has some bad sectors. Was hoping to clone the system to a new disk and move one.

1. The 74GB hard disk was close to full (only ~2GB free). Had a hard time getting the software to load. Deleted ~20GB of files and tried again.

2. New 200GB drive attached via USB. Walked through automatic cloning screens, process was started. Clicked "reboot" in a timely fashion.

3. System reboots, but upon logging in, nothing appears to be going on vis a vis Acronic.

Several times, but not always, I get a "No windows libraries." warning in the log.

Have tried this several times, and always wind up after reboot with nothing happening, whether I log back in or do not.

I may actually be wrong--the cloning may be happening--but instead of getting a 200GB disk, I get a disk that claims to have only 30GB, to which 28GB of my files have been written. This is not useful.

Where is what going wrong? How do I get my 200GB hard disk partitioned with all of the files from the current disk? Attached is my Acronis system report.

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Ari,

The 'libraries' error you get can be ignored, it is a Windows 7 component, hopefully in the first update someone will work out how to suppress that message for XP users.

Are you cloning from within Windows or from the rescue CD? It is better to clone the OS drive from the CD as there are then no Windows related transactions that could be interefering with the clone.

I am cloning from the OS drive. Are you saying that I should create a rescue CD , boot from it, then clone the ailing drive to the new one?

Unfortunately, I have at hand CDs, but no thumb drives--will the CD have enough space? (I guess so - the docs note that I can create either a CD or thumb drive or other medium?)

You can use ATI to create a bootable CD (CD is big enough) or you can download the bootable ISO from your Acronis.com account, after you have created your account there and registered your serial number.

You will have to boot your computer on the CD. A Linux-based version of ATI will start and you will use it to clone your disk.

Reverse clone: if you have a laptop, it is better to do a "reverse clone". Still from the CD, take the source disk, put the new disk at its place. Put the source disk in a USB enclosure. Do the cloning.