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WD My Passport Ultra looks damaged after a try to clone the main disk with Acronis 2015

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Hello,
I have a problem with a backup on a WD My Passport Ultra connected via USB.
I launched a clone disk to get a full copy of my Windows7 disk on the home PC.
the process terminated without any error, as long as I can see.
But now the disk is declared 'System Reserved' and looks 100Mb large instead of 1T.
Do you have any advice about what went wrong and how to recover the size of the disk?

Thank you, Best Regards

Mario Rotigni

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Could you post pictures of what you're seeing? Hopefully you're just misreading what is being shown. However, if you cloned from the blank disk to the main disk (opposite direction), that would be bad news. Did you take a precautionary backup first, just in case?

http://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/ATI2016/#21822.html

What is the best way to migrate the system to a new disk: cloning or backup and recovery? - The backup and recovery method provides more flexibility. In any case, we strongly recommend to make a backup of your old hard disk even if you decide to use cloning. It could be your data saver if something goes wrong with your original hard disk during cloning. For example, there were cases when users chose the wrong disk as the target and thus wiped their system disk. In addition, you can make more than one backup to create redundancy and increase security.

Could you tell me how to clone: in Windows or after booting from the rescue media? Even when you start cloning in Windows, the computer will reboot into the Linux environment the same as when booting from the rescue media. Because of this, it is better to clone under rescue media. For example, there may be a case when your hard disk drives are detected in Windows and not detected in Linux. If this is the case, the cloning operation will fail after reboot. When booting from the rescue media, you can make sure that Acronis True Image detects both the source and target disks before starting the cloning operation.