Trying to clone drive but fails

mark2410 · 16 Nov 2018 at 14:50

Trying to clone an m.2 drive from one running to one in a usb enclosure but it keeps failing, tried a coulpe programes. Is there any way to tell if its the enclosure or the new drive?

any if anyone has advice on how to clone the drive it would be most welcome.

andicole0 · 16 Nov 2018 at 14:57

How does it fail? Can you see the new drive in Device manager? Is the enclosure USB 3 and is the port it's plugged into USB 3 as well?
Andi.

mark2410 · 16 Nov 2018 at 15:01

it fails by the cloning application saying so and giving an error. device manager sees the drive fine. and yes is plugged into usb 3 sockets

PiKe · 16 Nov 2018 at 15:01

What program are you using?

mark2410 · 16 Nov 2018 at 15:06

tried macrum reflect and easeus both failed and gave an error which was not anything that was useful

bremen1874 · 16 Nov 2018 at 15:22

If you can't directly clone it image it instead.

Image the drive to to somewhere convenient.
Replace the old drive with the new one.
Boot into the Macrium recovery environment.
Restore the image to the new drive.

mark2410 · 16 Nov 2018 at 15:43

https://www.dropbox.com/s/50exhuio7ig4fwo/2018-11-16 15.36.55.jpg?dl=0

bremen1874 · 16 Nov 2018 at 15:48

Your correct it isn't a very helpful message.

Have you tried what I suggested above? It doesn't require the USB enclosure so it removes that as a potential cause.

mark2410 · 16 Nov 2018 at 15:52

no as the machine is a tablet, only has 1 m.2 slot so there is no where convenient to image it to

PiKe · 16 Nov 2018 at 15:56

Image it to a USB hdd, not the m.2 in the enclosure, then put the new m.2 in the tablet and image it back...

d_brennen · 16 Nov 2018 at 16:50

It's a PITA with portables with only one drive interface sometimes. I've had luck removing boot devices and putting them in another PC (not as boot drive) and using Macrium Reflect to clone to another drive (anything big enough to hold the partitions of the source drive) then plugging in a fresh drive and cloning back, before putting the new drive in the laptop/tablet. If that makes sense...

mark2410 · 16 Nov 2018 at 17:19

this give any ideas whats wrong?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qsykk4u4tu2f2x9/2018-11-16 16.11.06.jpg?dl=0

demonix · 16 Nov 2018 at 17:44

If you're still trying to clone from one drive to the other, I would suggest checking the new SSD for bad sectors as I did a google for that error you was getting and the first stated that it might be down to bad sectors on the destination drive

mark2410 · 16 Nov 2018 at 18:34

scanning the destination drive now but am more inclined to think its the enclosure that the drive

brendy · 16 Nov 2018 at 18:37

Daft question but is the host drive encrypted?

mark2410 · 16 Nov 2018 at 18:42

brendy said:
Daft question but is the host drive encrypted?

nope its not encrypted