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| Cloning hard drive fails: how to fix it Posted: 29 Apr 2010 11:27 PM PDT I was upgrading a PC, and everything was proceeding normally. I get to the point where I clone the old hard drive to the new drive (after which I usually need to do a repair install of windows XP)… but I couldn’t clone the drive. The target drive was a 250Gb Seagate sata drive… not large by todays standards… and nothing unusual about it. The source drive was an 80Gb Samsung drive… also nothing unusual about it. I thought that maybe my old version of ghost somehow couldn’t cope with the newer drive configurations, so I tried the latest acronis true image 2010, but it also failed with an error something like: “the clone failed, reason unknown”. So: I look more closely at the source drive (I will assume, for now, that the new target drive is not at fault). A check-disk reveals no errors. But I try acronis true image again, but with a slightly different configuration… but no go… I adjust the partitions a few different ways… but still no go. OK, I decide to look at the contents of the source drive: I can see lots of temp windows files, and the drive is slightly fragmented. So I clear out:
I then defragment the drive. I don’t know why I’m bothering with all this work… it probably won’t make any difference. I then try the clone again: and this time it works perfectly… and very quickly as well! I wouldn’t have thought that something like fragmentation or an excessive number of temp files would have caused a problem with a clone… but there it is! Related posts:
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