Re: Upgrade to new drive issues

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You can rt click MyComputer>select Manage>Disk Management. From there
you can remove the E: F: and G: partitions
if you are inclined to do so. My thinking is that the last partition
has some disk errors on it. Do a chkdisk on each partition
before you attempt to clone them. Then give it another go.
"GWB" <george.barrowcliff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I purchased and installed Acronis V10 on my IBM Thinkcentre.
I added a new 80 gb drive as a second drive, rebooted and set up to run a
disk clone to the new drive.
The old drive had several partitions that I wanted to drop, only keeping
C: and D:, dropping E: F: and G: however in the setup for cloning there is
no option for dropping a partition.
I started the clone anyway with a proportional parttion copy which ran
good until it got 98% (99% done total) into the clone of the 23 Gb G:
partition and got a disk error. I gave it the Ignore All error option and
let it run for 30 minutes more with no further progress.
An ESC caused a shutdown after about 5 minutes. I re-booted and started
the clone again, got to the same point and would not move past the 98%.

I am reluctant to use partition magic to delete the partitions since I do
not want to do anything whatsoever to my source drive to ensure I can at
least go back to that drive until I have successfully cloned it. I
intended to drop the extra partitions on the clone.

Any ideas would be helpful.
Thanks



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