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I have a 1 TB External Western Digital hard drive that I am trying to clone to a new 3TB External Western Digital hard drive. I am using Acronis True Image 2010 but it keeps giving me all kinds of errors when I try to do the clone.
I have tried to do the clone with both Windows 7 64 bit and Windows XP 32 bit and it will not work. Is there any other software available that may handle cloning of these larger drives better?
Does the 1TB drive just hold files and coping and pasting to the new drive would be easy and painless?
Mentioning the exact verbage of the error message is always a good idea. I'm guessing you spent a lot of time Googling the errors and or looking on Acronis's web site-support section.
I could copy and paste to the new 3TB but it would take hours to do that. I thought it might be easier to just use the Acronis software. These are all music files that need to be transferred.
The error message that I was getting said that the new 3TB hard drive was too small to do a clone to from the 1TB drive. I knew that wasn't the case. The other thing that is weird is that the new 3TB hard drive is partitioned into a 2TB partition and a separate 1TB partition. I would like for that to be just 1 3TB partition. I don't know if it is possible to do that somehow.
2TB is a known limit. Your system may not support it.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/HDD...ATA,11494.html
There is no benefit to cloning the data with Acronis if it's not bootable. Just a copy/paste would be enough.