Solved Used to clone ok with Macrium 7. Installed 8 on another PC, now it seems to get stuck on windows partition clone

On 7 I used to see progress. On 8 no progress. It has been 15 minutes of no program feedback

Could it be version 7 is better? Anyone have a link to version 7 I can try?
I have checked the source and destination disks and they have no error
Data to copy is about 200 gb
It does the first partition of 50mb about instant
Clones like this on version 7 take about an hour.

But I see no progress which makes me wonder is anything happening....it just says processing shadow copy.
This is second time I am trying this. First time after no progress I powered off the PC.
Everything on the PC is super quiet, the destination disk is a spinner SATA drive

I know lots of people have experience here with Macrium, so how long will it hang at processing shadow copy?

found 7.1 here.
Will give it another 45 minutes or so then try version 7

sdowney717 said:

On 7 I used to see progress. On 8 no progress. It has been 15 minutes of no program feedback

Could it be version 7 is better? Anyone have a link to version 7 I can try?

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I don't think it is Reflect's problem, looks more like you're suffering VSS issues (and that's an OS issue).

You can still get Reflect Free v7 direct from Macrium with their Download Agent.

Weird what does this mean?

How to fix it

cloning from disk 0 to disk 2
Both passed disk check under properties, tools
I priorly had used create partitions tool gui to delete everything on the disk and create a single partition
When I did that using windows tool new partition and formatted, it said healthy

The disk to clone is a SSD WD Blue, the disk to write on is a SATA spinner disk
Bios is set to AUTO for sata drives, not 3 gps, not 6 gps

sdowney717 said:

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For Error 8 see if this thread on the Reflect Forum helps....

Macrium it is disk 1 to disk 3 clone

Bree said:

For Error 8 see if this thread on the Reflect Forum helps....

Can't Clone HD - Keep getting, "Clone Failed Error 8" Using latest version of Win 10

forum.macrium.com

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cant be memory it has 16 gb DDR3

rescue environment?
What if I go into bios and set it to 3gbps SATA2?
Macrium seems to complain about read-write speeds

here is an I/O error response from Macrium, basically chkdsk

OK, will do it again, does it need to be all 4 disks or just the 2 being used for the clone operation?

wiped partitions on the destination drive, and reformatting now.
But it really should be MBR not GPT, although I think Macrium should handle wiping and making a MBR like it has before.
This older PC is not UEFI

And this time it is taking long time to format 1 TB drive.
I suppose this is going to take a while. I have been using this drive for clone back ups and restores for the past week on a different motherboard without a hitch.

I think I will try cloning to the Samsung 1 TB drive, it is mostly empty except for a few test recordings of WMC.
The format could take couple hours

The G: drive windows says is ok
Will try a clone on it

Seems I can not. Macrium hangs as a drive is being formatted, oh well....

Just waiting and watching WMC for now. Macrium has completely stopped responding I suppose due to the formatting.

WMC still works really great and we also have all the streaming you know Netflix Disney Amazon Hulu. You can get info from the green button forum

I gave up on the long format just now.
Did a quick format
Then checkdisk in tools
Everything is fine, on to trying a clone process

Taken from Event viewer
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Log Name: Application
Source: Chkdsk
Date: 3/1/2024 1:02:39 PM
Event ID: 26226
Task Category: None
Level: Information
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: DESKTOP-H2L8KHA
Description:
Chkdsk was executed in scan mode on a volume snapshot.

Checking file system on E:
Volume label is New Volume.

Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ...
256 file records processed.

File verification completed.
Phase duration (File record verification): 56.68 milliseconds.
0 large file records processed.

Phase duration (Orphan file record recovery): 6.45 milliseconds.
0 bad file records processed.

Phase duration (Bad file record checking): 2.73 milliseconds.

Stage 2: Examining file name linkage ...
278 index entries processed.

Index verification completed.
Phase duration (Index verification): 14.01 milliseconds.

Phase duration (Orphan reconnection): 2.94 milliseconds.

Phase duration (Orphan recovery to lost and found): 2.87 milliseconds.
0 reparse records processed.

0 reparse records processed.

Phase duration (Reparse point and Object ID verification): 2.66 milliseconds.

Stage 3: Examining security descriptors ...
Security descriptor verification completed.
Phase duration (Security descriptor verification): 6.76 milliseconds.
11 data files processed.

Phase duration (Data attribute verification): 1.14 milliseconds.

Windows has scanned the file system and found no problems.
No further action is required.

976759807 KB total disk space.
48858888 KB in 7 files.
72 KB in 13 indexes.
96019 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
927804828 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
244189951 total allocation units on disk.
231951207 allocation units available on disk.
Total duration: 96.38 milliseconds (96 ms).

----------------------------------------------------------------------


Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ...

Stage 2: Examining file name linkage ...

Stage 3: Examining security descriptors ...

Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Chkdsk" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">26226</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>4</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2024-03-01T18:02:39.0392008Z" />
<EventRecordID>2542</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="8440" ThreadID="0" />
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>DESKTOP-H2L8KHA</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>

Checking file system on E:
Volume label is New Volume.

Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ...
256 file records processed.

File verification completed.
Phase duration (File record verification): 56.68 milliseconds.
0 large file records processed.

Phase duration (Orphan file record recovery): 6.45 milliseconds.
0 bad file records processed.

Phase duration (Bad file record checking): 2.73 milliseconds.

Stage 2: Examining file name linkage ...
278 index entries processed.

Index verification completed.
Phase duration (Index verification): 14.01 milliseconds.

Phase duration (Orphan reconnection): 2.94 milliseconds.

Phase duration (Orphan recovery to lost and found): 2.87 milliseconds.
0 reparse records processed.

0 reparse records processed.

Phase duration (Reparse point and Object ID verification): 2.66 milliseconds.

Stage 3: Examining security descriptors ...
Security descriptor verification completed.
Phase duration (Security descriptor verification): 6.76 milliseconds.
11 data files processed.

Phase duration (Data attribute verification): 1.14 milliseconds.

Windows has scanned the file system and found no problems.
No further action is required.

976759807 KB total disk space.
48858888 KB in 7 files.
72 KB in 13 indexes.
96019 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
927804828 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
244189951 total allocation units on disk.
231951207 allocation units available on disk.
Total duration: 96.38 milliseconds (96 ms).

----------------------------------------------------------------------


Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ...

Stage 2: Examining file name linkage ...

Stage 3: Examining security descriptors ...
</Data>
<Binary>000100001F0000001B0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000</Binary>
</EventData>
</Event>

Not feeling confident so far
Maybe I should try copying lots of files by the file manager and see if it fails
I will give it 5 minutes then force shutdown
I have not found a way to stop the process. Task manager cant stop it.

may have found the problem, manually copying many gb, the copy process stops here at 36%
like I thought chkdsk would know better?
IT must be a bad drive, the copy process has hung up.



click X to stop and not responding

Task manager again can not shut it down.
Power button force shut down coming up

I don't believe this result.
What exaclty is a fitness test? Says completed without error when it really is bad?
I don't want to waste time doing a long test

Now cloning onto disk 2. The other disk is fried

I forced WMC to put record TV onto it and it is having problems. WMC is halting and the drive is clicking!