So I partitioned the 4 TB drive into 2 partitions, F: and G. I figured that since I want to clone from a 2 TB drive to a 4 TB drive, I could use 2 TB for the image creation and the other 2 TB for the restore. It took over 24 hours to create the image so I'm just now replying to the thread about the original suggestion posted by Philip Corcoran. I created a disk image using a program called Active Disk Image Lite. I downloaded Acronis True Image WD edition from the WD website, but it doesn't let me clone to the WD drive either - the drive is grayed-out when I get to the step of selecting a destination disk, and the program doesn't give any explanation about why.īTW, the disk I'm trying to clone is not a bootable disk. I'm still not having any success at this. Is there a utility that will do this copy? Do I need to return the WD drive and buy another Seagate, so that hopefully it will have the same sector size as the source drive? In theory, the source HD is only half the size as the destination so I should be able to copy from one to another. I could go on, but like I said I have yet to find a utility that looks like it will do the copy. DriveImageXML didn't show the right capacity for the destination (showing 500 GB instead of 4 TB), so I was afraid to proceed further in case it was selecting the wrong disk (since I have a HD that really is 500 GB, and I didn't want to overwrite it by mistake). Ease US Partition Manager tells me that the source and destination have different sector sizes so the one cannot be copied to the other. Seagate disk wizard didn't even let me select the WD as a destination disk. I have yet to find one that looks like it will do the copy. I've tried several different programs that supposedly copy/clone from one disk or partition to another, including Seagate disk wizard, Ease US Partition Manager, DriveImage XML, and a couple of others. I'm trying to copy from a 2 TB Seagate HD to a 4 TB WD HD.
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