When booting from the rescue media, you can make sure that Acronis True Image 2015 detects both the source and target disks before starting the cloning operation. If this is the case, the cloning operation will fail after reboot. For example, there may be a case when your hard disk drives are detected in Windows and not detected in Linux. Because of this, it is better to clone under rescue media. If you are going to do system disk cloning, it recommended to do it from Acronis Bootable Media.Įven when you start cloning in Windows, the computer will reboot into the Linux environment the same as when booting from the rescue media. Please clone to internal SATA SSD or HDD instead.

Windows does not support booting from external USB hard drives. (!) If you clone a disk with Windows to external USB hard drive, you will not be able to boot from it. It is possible to clone a larger disk to a smaller one, provided that the smaller hard disk has enough capacity to fit the contents of the larger disk. Despite ppl reported bugs in the 2015 version, I have been using Acronis for more than 10 years and never had any problems.

It is recommended not to format the source hard disk after the cloning until you are sure that the cloned target disk boots fine. Source disk volumes can be cloned to the target disk 'as is' or resized proportionally. (!) If you are planning to clone a disk from your laptop, please see Cloning Laptop Hard Disk. (!) See also Acronis True Image Does Not Clone Drives with Different Logic Sector Sizes.

If it shows Dynamic, then cloning is not possible:.If it shows Basic, then you can do the cloning:.You can use Windows Disk Management to see if you have basic or dynamic disks:

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