Evade the 512/4096 problem
I've Acronis 2016, and used it but once - to replace the hard disk on my son's machine. In the course of that I found out about the 512/4096 sector incombatibility.
Now, I wish to replace my laptop's 320G drive with a 500G SSD. I haven't yet investigated the sector sizes, but I suspect the SSC is 4096. If that's the case cloning won't work. So my question is: May I make a bootable backup regardless of the sector sizes on source and destination; and if the source is 512 byte sectors will my restore to a 4096 byte sector disk boot and work OK?
Thank you,sir - your reply was just what I've been looking for. Yes, there are a number of things that I need to do, and the first one is to find an USB enclosure so I can mount and format the SSD.
Personally, I like the EZ dock 3 by Kingwin...link below. It will hold a standard 3.5 inch drive and a standard 2.5 inch drive....the drives drop in/out...much easier than an enclosure.
https://www.amazon.com/Kingwin-2-5-Inch-3-5-Inch-Clone-EZD-2537U3/dp/B0…
Most current day SSD drives do come formated as 4096 sector drives. A 512 sector backup image will restore fine to them becasue Acronie True Image will make appropriate adjustments to make it work.
The Clone, because it is a bit for bit copy of one drive to another drive, will fail because of the 512/4096 difference.