I was finally able to clone my system partition to an eSATA mounted drive for later move inside as main system drive but when I try to boot from it, I get a disk read error and boot failure. The drive looks like it was properly cloned (by Seagate DiscWizard (Acronis); drive is a 1TB Seagate hybrid ST1000DX). Might this have anything to do with it's being mounted eSATA? Am I wasting my time moving it for trial inside the box? Any tips?
clone system partion boot failure - disk read error
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- Sep 7, 2013
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It could be just because it's currently connected to eSATA. Mount it internally and give it a try, hopefully you will be pleasantly rewarded with a successful boot.
Success. I should have noted that I tried to perform a system partition clone but that Acronis didn't seem to allow it and did a disk clone. I read elsewhere what appears to be the reason for this (if not for it not being made clear by the program): "If the drive that this bootable partition is on is the boot drive, you will have to clone the whole drive instead of the partition. This is to get the MBR and boot loader which are in space that is outside of the partitions."
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Glad you fixed it. "Cloning" refers to the entire drive anyway, that's what the word means. When you want to make an exact copy of just one or two partitions, you create a "drive image" - - that's not cloning. It's Acronis mis-using the word "clone" that's very poor in my opinion. You don't "clone" a partition, that just doesn't make any sense.
I will keep that in mind as the issue seems a bit muddied; I find 'cloning' to reference any entity copied 'exactly', and specifically in regard to partitions by EaseUs (PM and Todo), Clonezilla, Acronis and Seagate (Acronis) which states however that it does not support same: "Seagate DiscWizard does not provide for cloning a single partition. You can clone only an entire drive."
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