Attempting to clone HD, v2.0

My apologies for the double post. My previous thread answered the Qs about which utility to use, now I am trying to get to the "how".

So far you guys have been awesome - I truly appreciate your guidance and patience.

here's where I am: I have the HD, and the dock. I have DLed and installed both Macrium and Acronis (more on why in a moment).

This HD http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...SD-500AS7 SY
This case/dock http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...p?Sku=T13-5026

I first tried Macrium. I can get through to the disk image wizard just fine. When I am prompted to select a drive to write to, the new drive is not there. Thinking it might be a glitch in the freeware, I did the same with Acronis, same result.

Looking at 'My computer' I do not see the new drive as listed. Device manager shows the USB/ATA adapter and lists the new drive as a USB storage device. Looking at the dropdowns in Acornis and Macrium, the drive is not shown in any fashion.

Looking in Disk Management, I show "Drive 2" is there, showing online and unallocated, MBR

What step am I missing?

 

Yes, same size HD as original. 500G seagate. I only have the external enclosure as a means to the end: firing up the new HD and cloning from the old one.

I know I am on level 100 questions for you guys. but some guidance on formatting the drive would be most appreciated

 

OK - here's where we are: I managed to get the new drive formatted. Used macrium to image the old drive to the new one. removed the old HD, inserted new one. Comp will not boot - getting a failure and request to insert the system disc.

Went into the setup and boot menus, the drive is found and recognized. Where did I go wrong?

 

Also - When I reinstalled the old drive, put the new one back as an external to look at the file - I have the MACRIUM disk partition image there.

So did I do something wrong when i cloned? confused as usual

And as usual all help is appreciated

TIA

 

advancing but still needing assistance. Figured out I need to restore from the image.

When I select the image, then go to the 'select partition to overwrite - I dont have the option to jsut restore the disk from itself...the partitioning is not allowing it. Very confused, hoping for help. Read the macrium tutorials, still confused.

 

I am not familiar with either of those programs. I have cloned and replace several hard drives using XXClone. http://majorgeeks.com/XXCLONE_d5534.html

I have cloned internal hard drives, and drives via USB with no issues. You pick a target and source drive, clone it, then make the target bootable. (Is an option easily found in the XXClone software) Good luck whichever way you go.

I am sure someone will have some experience with the programs you are using.