Barracuda XT, Barracuda, Barracuda Green, DiamondMax and other desktop SATA and IDE drives

[Profitweb]

I have searched to try to find solutions to this & none have worked.  I have fully formatted, ran ChkDisk, Seatools for Windows, etc... and nothing shows errors.  Looks good & healthy in Computer Management.  When I try to clone my current drive to my new one with Acronis it stops at 6%-25% with a message:

Error: unable to write disc 2 sector xxxxxxxxx

It's saying it's unable to write to my new Momentus HD.  Sector #'s vary each time.  ChkDisk showed no problems.

INFO:

• New hard drive connected via USB
• Cloning healthy Fijuji (spelling?) 80gb to new Seagate Momontus 320gb for more room.
• Windows XP
• Dell Latutude D820 laptop
• Cloning software attempted: Acronis DiscWizard & True Image Home (looks like same DOS utility either way)

[Troubleshooter]

Profitweb,

Posted this earlier today. I meant to reply to your 4-22-09 post, but am new to the forum and ended up posting a stand-alone.  Any news?

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Did you get a solution? I have the same problem cloning a 30G hard drive on an IBM R40 laptop to a new Seagate Momentus 5400.3 120G drive. I am using MaxBlast 5 to do the cloning.

I have the new drive attached through a USB R2 port. The source drive has two partitions.

I get 66% through the cloning of the first partition when the "unable to to write disc 2 sector xxxxxxxxx" messages start. After a few retrys and ignores, I selected Ignore All. The process continues VERY slowly (1 percent every 10 minutes) but with no more disk activity.

Did you find a solution?