#Acronis true image 2014 bad sector how to#

If the new disk is inside the laptop, the boot settings will be automatically adjusted to boot from internal disk.

Otherwise you will may not be able to boot from the new cloned drive, as Acronis True Image will apply a bootability fix to the new disk and adjust the boot settings of the target drive to boot from USB. It is recommended to put the new drive in the laptop first, and connect the old drive via USB.

#Acronis true image 2014 bad sector how to#

Note: the first section of the above KB document directs laptop users to KB 2931: How to clone a laptop hard drive - and has the following paragraph: Please see KB 56634: Acronis True Image: how to clone a disk - and review the step by step guide given there. When cloning laptop drives, then other considerations come into play and the target drive should be installed internally in the laptop for it to be used as a boot device after the clone completes. Tom, welcome to these public User Forums.ДЄny disk with bad sectors will pose problems for most, if not all, applications like Acronis True Image and will only store up other more serious problems for later.ДЄTI will attempt to clone disk with bad sectors but will switch to using a sector-by-sector mode of operation, which will then require the source & target drives to be of the same size or the target drive to be larger than the source.