Upgrade to new drive issues

G

GWB

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
 
R

Rich Barry

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.
 
A

Anna

Rich Barry said:
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.


George:
I just came across your post of a few days ago so I don't know if you've
resolved your problem as it involves the cloning of partitions from one HDD
to another HDD using the Acronis program. So if you want to further pursue
that specific issue, I would have some suggestions for you. I will, however,
need some further info from you concerning your present situation and your
precise objective.

I will be assuming that your source HDD is non-defective and that you're
working with a bootable working HDD that's free of system files corruption.
I'm also assuming that your proposed destination HDD is similarly
non-defective and that all your connections/configurations are correct as
they affect both of those disks. I mention all this because of your comment
about the cloning process going awry.
Anna
 

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