Cloning to larger disc fails
I am trying to clone a Samsung 1TB disk (approx 1/3 used) to a 2TB Western Digital disk. Running Win 7 64bit
I have downloaded the WD version of Acronis and installed the WD disk which Acronis sees fine (and in other tests I can format it and copy data to it).
Selecting the clone disk option it fails almost straight away with the message:
"Failed to move the selected data. Make sure that your new hard drive is not smaller than your old one and your partitions do not contain errors. You can check for the errors and correct them using a special utility."
I have downloaded disk inspection software and the WD disk is fine, when formatted it shows its 2TB size, so what am I doing wrong or why is it failing?
Should I make an Acronis boot disk and try it that way? Not sure what that does but presumably it offers a clone option without booting into Windows?
Any advice/guide as to just how to go about this and in what order to get it to work would be much appreciated!
Not sure what options you have with the free WD version. I believe cloning or restoring from inside Windows is your only option but I do not know for sure. If you can do it, performing either the clone or the restore using the Rescue CD is a much better option.
Another option you can try is to clear the new target disk so it shows everything unallocated.
What is the brand of laptop?
Some parts of the program look more basic than on the guides, but the clone disc/add disc options look same as full program.
I have taken a full disc image, and restored that, but must have not ticked all the right options as on my new disc I ended up with 2 partitions for the system reserved 100mb and the rest, plus only 1tb was used. Wasn't sure how to resize etc but guess I can do it that way more cerfully reading the manual and it should work.
Have tried clearing the target disc so all unallocated, didn't help but then reading your footer I should not be cloning using that option anyway!
Not a laptop - self built desktop, just want a bigger drive and keep the old 1tb for backups.
EDIT - just seen the guides in your footer, will look through those and am sure I will get it sorted. Almost managed the take image / restore to new disk route before so will try and read instructions and do it properly this time!
My reason for asking about the brand was to try and determine the partition sequence in use on your computer. As yours is a self built, I would guess that you do not have a separate boot or recovery partition and your active partition is the main system partition C? This information can be helpful when doing a restore of partitions. My guides can only provide some overall assistance as your partition sequence may differ.
Added:
If you perform a full disk backup to include all your partitions, it should be an easy restore to achieve a duplicate but larger drive by performing a restore choosing the disk as the restore option.
Grover - Thanks for help.
Not at that PC at the moment but will check this evening. From memory I think there is just a 100mb system partition which I think is a Win 7 default. I have seen plenty on the creation of the 100mb partition and that is it not really needed needed (it doesn't show in Windows Explorer)
I did trial a disk backup and reinstall to the new disk, which would then boot, but it gave the partitions drive letters and only created partitions same size as smaller disk so all looked a bit messy! I'm sure that was just me not looking at the options properly, and I don't think I will need the system partition when I restore to new disk so will not restore that.
Strange the Clone option doesn't work but with a bit more care I think I can use the backup/restore process to do the move.
I'm pretty sure that W7 installations typically inclulde a second, reserved partition.
W7 has separete system and boot parititions. See,. e.g.,:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/What-are-system-partitions-…
Yo have to get both of these onto the target if you want to move W7 from one disk to another. The OS won't boot up otherwise.
It's best to do a full disk mode backup, including all the paartions and restore all fo them to the target, including disk signature.
I am trying to clone a Samsung 1TB disk (approx 1/3 used) to a 2TB Western Digital disk. Running Win 7 64bit
I have downloaded the WD version of Acronis and installed the WD disk which Acronis sees fine (and in other tests I can format it and copy data to it).
Selecting the clone disk option it fails almost straight away with the message:
"Failed to move the selected data. Make sure that your new hard drive is not smaller than your old one and your partitions do not contain errors. You can check for the errors and correct them using a special utility."
I have downloaded disk inspection software and the WD disk is fine, when formatted it shows its 2TB size, so what am I doing wrong or why is it failing?
I have a similar situation except my new disk is a WD 2TB and I am trying to clone a 160GB C drive with Windows, programs, and data. I got the same software and the same error message. I did a quick format in Windows and it now shows 122MB of the disk is used. On what I don't know.
What is the disk inspection software that can be downloaded?
Tom Dowling,
What version of Windows?
Which version of TrueImageHome?
It might help if you posted a picture of your partition arrangement as displayed by your Windows Disk management tool.
If you are using Win7, your partition arrangement might look like some of the one s pictured in the attachment below.
