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! 

My son-in-law's Father lives in Tightwad - not too far from you.

Gotta love small town names. :-)

Last shot....

Check that drive to see if the jumper is in the right position. There is a jumper that determines if it is a boot, master or slave drive. If that jumper is not in the slave position, it won't image.

Or....the drive may be bad.

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!

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. 

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

The Device Type strap is only on IDE (PATA) drives, not SATA.  However, that is for Master/Slave/Cable Select and would not affect loading the device. 

Actually the device type on most computers with PATA drives is set to Cable Select, rather than the older useage of Master or Slave.  Where the device is on the cable determines if it is "master" or "slave".

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! 

Has anyone actually read the Cloning instructions in the Acronis Help File?  It seems to be fairly clear on what has to be done.  The "Automatic" option appears to be the easiest.