Cloning issues

Telecaster · 25 Feb 2018 at 16:04

Trying to upgrade the C drive in my Dad's PC , naively assumed it would be 30 min job and it's typically turned into a farce.

Trying to clone his 64gb ssd to a new 240gb with easeUS and it has cloned the old 64gb partition and created another full 64gb partition on the new drive and not showing the remaining empty space so windows just sees another full drive.

How do I sort this, surely it should just be one click stuff these days?

Telecaster · 25 Feb 2018 at 20:36

I've tried both Macrium reflect and EaseUS and failed.

With Macrium it comes up with "unable to read sector correctly" or something similar, I forget because I'm back home now.

With EaseUS it just says "clone failed".

The existing drive is fine and works without fault, it's just too small hence the upgrade. I've had to leave him with the old drive in whilst I come away and try to read up on why I can't get it working.

Thought this would be a 30 min job, as per usual...

Telecaster · 26 Feb 2018 at 21:29

I don't have another SSD, I do have a spare 2.5" HDD kicking around I could try.

I don't have a utility for either drive.

Telecaster · 1 Mar 2018 at 15:32

APM said:
What make are the drives you are using?

Source drive is a Crucial 64GB back from when SSDs were still quite new and 64GB was a lot. Target drive is some cheap 240GB Sunbow thing off Amazon.

Telecaster · 1 Mar 2018 at 16:46

He wouldn't have used, he's a bit funny like that.

What I could possibly do is upgrade my 840 Evo to a 500GB and give him that.

I have a few of those Sunbow drives and haven't had any issues with them, I'm going to give it a few more tries before giving up.

Telecaster · 3 Mar 2018 at 15:48

Nugsy88 said:
Acronis True Image, Worked first time.

This worked, thanks for the tip.

Worked first time and seems 100%, thanks all for the help.