Cloning Failures

[londonda]

I am trying to clone my current notebook HD (160GB) to a WD Scorpio Blue (1TB) drive (WD10JPVT) via an enclosure and USB.

The new HD is formatted properly, and I can drag and drop files to it and access them without a problem. However, when I try to make a clone using the Acronis software, the new HD is listed, but unable to be selected as the destination drive.

Anyone have any ideas on how to solve this?

[Awopero]

Are both drives WD? I'll recommend you to test the drive and software with another enclosure....

[DavidSucesso]

please test and retest your drive to see if it mantains stable... its a completely new technology and you have to be sure that you dont run into problems the first month you get the drive

let your old drive working more time and try in some desktop fill it up and see the smart... than erase the content and tru write zeros, etc etc then when the drive is warm try seek test  in hard disk sentinel .... my drives for example all have to pass an entire hour of seeking tests to see if the drive gives errors or comes back clean...

the drives are prepared to suffer and to last long enough

best regards

david

[escreate]

I tried to clone my current drive to a new 1TB WD10JPVT drive that I connected via a USB to SATA cable.  I never could get cloning to work.   I even tried putting the new 1TB drive in the laptop computer and connecting the original via USB to SATA but kept getting read errors.  Luckily I had two of these drives and I ended up doing a backup of the original drive to one and then recovering to the other one.  I copied the backup file to the newly created 1TB drive.  I then also did a recover to the other 1TB drive and copied the backup file to it also and use one drive as a backup drive and operate the other one as my new original drive.

Note: I asked WD and they said that the Acronis True Image WD Edition cloning only works with two hard drives connected to the motherboard.  Good luck trying to do this with a laptop.  Mine only has one SATA hard drive connection.  The only other possible connection was to my DVD drive and it uses a different type of connector with data and power on the same connector.

[Joe_S]

Try making an image instead of cloning and see if that will work. Look at Post 11 by Grover  http://forum.acronis.com/forum/3355 he explains about this.

Joe

[escreate]

My solution was to do a backup and restore, partition by partition.  The cloning created the proper partitions.

[escreate]

Just a note for those trying to clone a hard drive on a laptop computer.  EaseUS Todo Backup worked for me and it's free.  I had my original drive in the notebook computer and the new drive connected via USB port to SATA adapter. I hope they fix True Image WD Edition to do this.

[KK2628]

HI,

Just bought the drive last week and want to clone the WD so to replace my internal HDD. The 1st problem I encountered was seems that the WD cannot be clone while connecting to USB and transfer to internal SATA, the system said it cannot read the drive and when I check with Disk Utility, the partition mapping has been changed from Mac OS Extended (Journaled) to MBR(FAT) :confused:

Then by following this blog [URL="http://www.doppiojp.co.uk/1/post/2012/2/macbook-pro-15-inch-253ghz-mid-2009-doesnt-like-wd10jpvt-hdd..."]http://www.doppiojp.co.uk/1/post/2012/2/macbook-pro-15-inch-253ghz-mid-2009-doesnt-like-wd10jpvt-hdd...
suggestion, I tried to clone the WD by swapping it with the internal HDD i.e WD was connected to internal SATA and existing HDD connect to external USB. I have not success because the cloning speed has dropped from 20M/s to ~ 1M/s (6 hours ~30GB and I have a 500GB HDD ) :confused: (I m using SuperDuper to clone and my Macbook pro model is 2009 15" running 10.6.8)

I also tried to format the WD (internal SATA) and when I took it out and connect USB, I can see that the partition map has changed from GUID to MBR :confused:

Any clue or advise can help to improve the cloning speed and solve this problem would highly appreciated.

Thanks