System image restore failed because a disk which was critical to backup is excluded

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Syntaur

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EDIT: clarification and elaboration

Currently, I have two drives in my computer: 1 ssd as a boot drive and one ssd as storage. I'm trying to copy everything from my storage drive over to a new, larger drive. Copy and move commands don't work because it violates permissions (for reasons I'm unaware), so I tried creating a system image of my current storage drive to load to the new drive. I created the system image on an external hard drive, as well as a system repair disc. I booted from the repair disc and started the system image recovery process. I made sure to exclude all drives from the process except for the drive that I wished to transfer data to. This method didn't work and gave me an error message described in the title. Furthermore, the error message recommended I use diskpart command to ensure disk IDs were different and that all drives were formatted as either MBR or GPT. All disk IDs are different and all disks are formatted at MBR. The error message also recommended that I try detaching drives in order to remove the problem drive from the recovery process, however no matter which drives I removed I still received the same error message. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I should go about transferring data from one drive to another?

In short: Copy and move commands don't work. System Imaging Recovery doesn't work. Any suggestions?

P.S.: I will be trying cloning software as you all have recommended.
 
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In general cloning disc that is currently booted is bad idea. OS will lock some files, and some software might not recognize/monit that you did something stupid.
In general you want to:
1. boot to USB
2. use something like this: http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live.php
3. reboot to sshd to make sure its ok b4 going anywhere else (especially formatting ssd).

most discs come with "dedicated" clonning software, that will not need this USB magic. Check if you did not get something or websites don't have it. In my case "Samsung Data Migration Software for Consumer SSD"
In general cloning disc that is currently booted is bad idea. OS will lock some files, and some software might not recognize/monit that you did something stupid.
In general you want to:
1. boot to USB
2. use something like this: http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live.php
3. reboot to sshd to make sure its ok b4 going anywhere else (especially formatting ssd).

most discs come with "dedicated" clonning software, that will not need this USB magic. Check if you did not get something or websites don't have it. In my case "Samsung Data Migration Software for Consumer SSD"
 
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USAFRet

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Yes, clarification.
Which drive are you trying to clone? A secondary, storage drive?

1. You don't even need to clone that, Simple copy/paste will work.

2. You're doing something wrong with what you are using to do this.
Windows System Image is not for this type of function.

Any of the current cloning tools will do this easily. Macrium Reflect, Acronis TrueImage, Casper.


But really, we need a clearer explanation of what you are trying to do.
 
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