Re: Seagate(Acronis) cloning not working right.

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sgopus wrote:
I recently ran into a similar situation with a USB external drive, I
solved it by deleting the partitions outside of ACRONIS and than
again specifying delete partitions while inside ACRONIS , the clone
worked fine then, not sure why this happened, except for maybe the
system had locked the drive somehow, as it told me the drive was
busy, and or some application had it and wouldn't turn lose.

I tried formatting the drive to make sure it was easy to identify as they
are both virtually identical drives but in the end the only true way was by
the Model number. I guess I will have to try using a different type of drive
entirely.




"Jake" wrote:

I have used this application many times but this time for some
reason isn't working right. I am trying to clone my Disk
1...........IDE(0) Primary Master which is my C: drive and is a
Seagate Model ST3250624 3.AA to Disc
2................IDE(0) Primary Slave Seagate Model ST3250620 3.AA
Show as dive F:

I click NEXT after I select the Master and NEXT after I select
Primary slave. I then must click on O Delete partition on the
destination hard disc for the NEXT box to be clickable so I click
NEXT.

Now I see Seagate 250 G(C:) 232.9 GB NTFS in both Source and
Destination windows.

Does anyone have any ideas on a solution?

Maxblast 4 does not have a "clone" feature only "Drive-to-Drive
Copy". If I am only going to copy the contents of drive C to drive F
then why do I even need a cloning application and if I uses the
MaxBlast function will my end results be the same?

Thanks for any replies.

J.


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