Acronis cloning issue--solved

I'm trying to clone my HD onto two new ones.  I finally got one to work, but am running into a wall trying to clone it to the second one.  Here's what I'm doing:

Select Clone Disk
Select source disk
Select Target hard disk  ...then it says 'The destination hard disk drive you have chosen contains some partitions that could contain useful data.  Click OK to confirm deletion of all the partitions on the destination hard disk drive.'

Clicked OK.  then it says, 'Failed to move the selected data.  Make sure your new HD is not smaller than your old one and your partitions do not contain errors.'

...The new HD is twice as big as the old one and I'm not sure how the partitions would contain errors.

What do I do now? 

rtfm




errr....jokes...I don't know....just rtfm

Thanks guys.  Yes, they're both new ones.  And they've been formatted.  The message also says 'You can check for the errors and correct them using a special utility.'  Anyone know where that is?

Yes, exactly.

It worked on the first one, but I must be doing something wrong for the second one cause it keeps unformatting it.  Or something.  (my son reformats it for me--I don't know how.)

Yeah, that might work.  I'll probably just see if my son can come and format it once again and try it again.  If it screws up again I'll call in the bomb squad. 

You could come back. :-)

My son came over for awhile and worked with it...it doesn't seem to be doing what it says it does (clone one drive to another.)  Like I said, it did it for one HD (although all the info is about 4 files deep).  He messed around with the partitions, formatting, etc., etc., to no avail (and he knows what he's doing.)  I'll think we'll try one of his free programs and see how that goes.

Thanks guys! 

Gotta love small town names. :-)

I remember seeing that one of them is the master and one the slave.  Just tried to check on it now and Acronis won't even open.  I'll try again tomorrow after I reboot. 

Thanks for the ideas once again!

Janet


Ah there it is....

Primary master
Secondary slave
Secondary master.

I was able to clone the secondary master.   But it doesn't seem to be working right...I just tried to save a project to it and it wouldn't let me. 

What Middleman is referring to is a little connector in the back of (most) the hard drive(s), where the cable connect.  This little rectangular, plastic cap (there might be two or three) covers two of the many little brass colored (or is it copper) prongs.  Most hard drives have a little diagram somewhere on it showing what position this little cap should be placed for Master or Slave designation.  Using a pair of tweezers should be all you need to pull the cap off and place it back on.  Just make sure you are looking at the hard drive you want to save your backup to.  That is, the destination/target hard drive should be designated as Slave.

Let us know if that doesn't do the trick.  Otherwise, looks like a trip back to the place of purchase.

Kind regards,


Living Room Rocker

Thanks again for your help guys.  It may be hard for you all to imagine, but I don't get inside computers.  My husband and sons have always enjoyed doing that sort of thing, so take care of those things for me.  But I guess if I can take apart a chain saw and replace the ignition coil, I can figure out a few things in a computer.  lol.  Just never had to before.  I thought this would be a straight-forward process.  Oh well.  We'll keep working on it.  Thanks again! 

Yes, it's actually pretty straight-forward.  That's why I don't understand that error message.