Hardware RAIDs and storage spaces can be cloned provided the environment where Acronis product is running (e.g. Acronis True Image cannot clone RAIDs set up as LVM or LDM. Cloning RAID disksĬloning is supported only for simple disk partitioning systems, such as MBR and GPT. It is recommended not to format the source hard disk after the cloning until you are sure that the cloned target disk boots fine. E.g., you can clone a 512 bytes/sector disk to 512 bytes/sector disk you can clone a 4096 bytes/sector disk to 4096 bytes/sector disk but you cannot clone a disk with logical sector size 512 bytes to disk with logical sector size 4096 bytes.Ĭlick here to learn how to check disk's sector size: Cloning to a disk with different logical sector size is not supported. Source and target disks must have equal logical sector size. Please note that in some cases Acronis True Image will still ask for reboot, disk will be cloned offline, and then computer will reboot back into Windows.
The term 'Active Cloning' refers to a disk cloning operation that does not require you to reboot the computer to complete the operation. See the following articles for more information: Recent versions of Acronis True Image can perform active cloning under Windows/macOS.
