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Cloning Hard Drive - Apricorn EZ-UPGRADE - True Image - Seagate Disk Wizard
Laptop: Dell Inspiron I1318, 3GB ram 250gb hd, Vista Home Premium. Bought 12/29/08.
Issue: I purchased the EZ-UPGRADE (made by Apricorn) - usb external enclosure - and have been trying to clone an identical hard drive (for backup purposes). I've loaded the EZ-GigII rev 2 software and tried via using windows route and boot up route. I continue to get ERROR: unable to write disc 2 sector xxxxxx (retry, ignore, ignore all) - I hit a for ignore a and the cloning progressing percentage starts to work. But this cloning process takes over 20 hrs and then when completed I get OPERATION ERROR: invalid format. I check the drive via partition via right click computer, select manage and see the drive - and the drive states unallocated hard drive.
The EZ-GigII software is created by Acronis (True Image).
Seagate (hard drive mfr) also offers this software in their Seagate Disk Wizard software. I tried that software and True Image trial - and I get the same results.
I've tested (using seagate tools diagnostics software) and the drives pass all test. I bought another identical drive and same results.
I then took one of the new drives, formatted, installed in my Dell computer, loaded Vista Windows Premium and (so now I don't have the Dell utility partition - which some same maybe the culprit).
Still I can't clone the drive.
rick7679
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February 22nd, 2009 13:00
I was having the same problem when upgrading a hard drive (from a 80GB 5400rpm to a 320GB 7200rpm) on my Dell Inspiron 6400. After tightening the 4 screws on the back of the caddy, not only the errors went away, but the clone progress moved much faster.
Mr._Pseudonym
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February 22nd, 2009 22:00
;^) I'd use a GPartEd live CD, instead. It's easier to copy a hard drive partition when you haven't booted from it. Of course, if you have a hardware problem, this won't fix it, though backing up your data would be a good start....