Cannot clone C drive to USB SSD drive

So I'm trying to shrink and copy a 138 GB partition on a 160GB HDD to a 110 GB partition on a 120GB SSD. The SSD is hooked up via USB. Acronis True Image Home 2010 tells me the drive is unallocated or unsupported, but I do not know why:









Do I have to move the drive to one of the SATA controllers rather than USB to do this?

 

If the tool, a branded version (one you get from the SSD manufacturer)?

Having the destination drive on a SATA port would definitely help.

 

I cannot find any literature on Acronis or Kingston/Intel stating the USB bus won't work in this regard. Acronis is NOT affiliated with Intel/Kingston.

 

Well, the version that you buy from Acronis, yeah. However, Intel has a cloning tool that is rebranded Acronis and that one will not work on USB, it has to be SATA to detect it's a genuine Intel drive. It doesn't look like it's the case for you though.

You should be able to make bootable media to clone with Acronis. Put the new drive in the SATA port and the old drive on USB, that should work. eSATA will also work.

 

SpeedGuide.net :: Bits/Bytes Calculator

138.83 partition - 11.57 free space = 127.26 gb

onto a 115gb drive

115 = 107.10209608078 GB

backup 20gb of files try again....

Im guessing your offline booting from a live dvd or cd...

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Shouldn't be trying to image the drive with the program installed on the same Live OS Drive.

That DVD has the program you are using....boot to mini xp or window 7, use one of the programs in backup menu.

hoping you see their is data on your ssd destination too

and from your pictures all your drives are IDE,

guessing you dont have sata or esata on that machine

What are you trying to do, this sata is for a another machine right!! haha are you trying to run your system from an external sata drive at USB speeds?

 

I didn't even think about Acronis being on the same drive as the OS drive. That's probably it. Thanks guys!

 

Is the software free version or paid version? Most free version of the cloning software does not support cloning to a smaller drive.

Regards

 

No it's a paid version of Acronis. I'm trying it out tonight with a bootable USB and I'll let you all know how it turned out.

 

I would also shrink the C: partition to be smaller than the space on the SSD.

If you can't shrink it far enough then it's probably too full to fit on the SSD and you will need to do some housekeeping.

John

 

Yeah I'm going to leave off the stuff I don't need. I just remembered I have like 12 SSD's lying around and I NEVER use them so I got one of my hyperX 120GB drives in there via the included USB external case, and it took about 30 minutes but I copied over my Steam folder and my FPS was smoothed out in my orange box games so I figure I might as well stick my whole drive on there and get the full performance out of it.

 

Well the first step you would need to take is to make sure the c drive partition is shrunken so it could even fit on the ssd. Why not just backup all docs and whatnot and do a clean install on the ssd. That would probably be the smartest way to go about it.

 

I just did this using ease todo backup free. Worked a charm