Cloning External Terabyte Hard Drives Problem

[ginky4]

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?

[Steve R Jones]

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.

[ginky4]

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.

[Midknyte]

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.