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    Clone the mSATA on W530

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by MDDZ, May 8, 2015.

  1. MDDZ

    MDDZ Notebook Deity

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    I recently bought a used W530, which is in good shape. It has a 240GB mSATA and two other disks.

    I used its recovery media to restore the computer to its factory state and reformatted the two other disks.

    Now I have installed some software on and everything sits on mSATA, which is recognized as C: drive.

    I also installed Acronis True Image Home 2011 on this machine, I am hoping to clone the mSATA drive. However, Acronis is able to list this disk, but greyed it out, and I am unable to select it for cloning.

    Does anyone know why? Looked around and cannot find a solution to this.

    Thanks so much for any help!
     
    MDDZ, May 8, 2015
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  2. Thors.Hammer

    Thors.Hammer Notebook Enthusiast

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    Have you tried TrueImage 15 ?
     
    Thors.Hammer, May 30, 2015
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  3. turqoisegirl08

    turqoisegirl08 Notebook Evangelist

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    Are you attempting to clone a drive that is mounted and in use? I am unclear about your situation. I have used imaging/cloning software and was required to create a bootable CD/DVD/USB recovery media so that I did not have any conflicts with any mounted and in use SSD or HDD.
     
    turqoisegirl08, May 30, 2015
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