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    Sony Z went into Standby mode during cloning!

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by jlingo, Apr 21, 2009.

  1. jlingo

    jlingo Notebook Geek

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    I finally bought my Z series and trying to clone my HDD to my SSD using Acronis True Image with the SSD being on the outside of the computer using USB.
    When it reached 80%, everything shut down as If the computer went into standby mode with the power light intermittenly turning amber. I turned it on again manually but the screen stayed blank. So I have to redo the whole cloning process again.
    it happened 2x already?
    My Thinkpad never really went into sleep mode during cloning. Any tips on what to do?

    Thank you,
     
    jlingo, Apr 21, 2009
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  2. TonyZ

    TonyZ Notebook Evangelist

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    If it was standby mode that it went in to, go into your power options.
    Change the settings for harddrive to NEVER turn off.
    Change setting so laptop does not go into hibernate / standy after XX amount of minutes / hours.
     
    TonyZ, Apr 21, 2009
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  3. ZoinksS2k

    ZoinksS2k Notebook Virtuoso

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    What Tony said, or just switch to the "High Performance" power plan.
     
    ZoinksS2k, Apr 21, 2009
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  4. dz2k

    dz2k Notebook Consultant

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    or you could create a rescue boot media, boot from the cd when the laptop starts up, and then clone disk from totally outside of windows. this way, you never have to worry about sleep, standby, hibernate, etc.
     
    dz2k, Apr 21, 2009
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  5. arth1

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    Or switch to a backup program that will actually prevent sleep/standby while it's running.

    My experience with Acronis TI has been far from good -- it can't restore short file names on NTFS, so anything using them has to be reinstalled after a restore (including Microsoft Office and several Sony tools), doesn't handle failed backups gracefully (so you have to babysit it), and the Recovery Manager's bootloader seems incompatible with the Z.
     
    arth1, Apr 21, 2009
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