First time cloning attempt fail

[lonestar31]

I purchased an Inland dual bay usb 3.0 docking station and new Barracuda 2TB HDD to attempt to clone a 1TB Storage drive from my mothers computer that was failing. I did backup her important folders to my computer before attempting so they are safe thankfully. My first attempt i did nothing to the new and old drives except put them in the correct bays, make sure the usb cable was unplugged, and hit the cloning button. After running all night I checked the new drive, and the pictures folder would not come up and said it was corrupted. Also the new drive now only showed 1TB rather than 2TB. I formatted the drive still only seeing 1TB, and tried again failing a second time. Now I am trying to use the dock to simply format the drive back to 2TB and manually move the data over, but failing at this as well. Can anyone point me in the right direction please? Thank you 

[kdawwgg1221]

3 minutes ago, lonestar31 said:

I purchased an Inland dual bay usb 3.0 docking station and new Barracuda 2TB HDD to attempt to clone a 1TB Storage drive from my mothers computer that was failing. I did backup her important folders to my computer before attempting so they are safe thankfully. My first attempt i did nothing to the new and old drives except put them in the correct bays, make sure the usb cable was unplugged, and hit the cloning button. After running all night I checked the new drive, and the pictures folder would not come up and said it was corrupted. Also the new drive now only showed 1TB rather than 2TB. I formatted the drive still only seeing 1TB, and tried again failing a second time. Now I am trying to use the dock to simply format the drive back to 2TB and manually move the data over, but failing at this as well. Can anyone point me in the right direction please? Thank you 

Well cloning isn't always 100% successful. My first attempt at it last year ended up in me accidentally deleting the Windows Partition so I had to reinstall windows files in order to get my PC back lol. You could just manually copy the files that you want to transfer. DO NOT CLONE OR COPY OPERATING SYSTEM FILES like myself (I was a noob at the time).

[lonestar31]

This drive was a Microsoft Storage Space drive I added for my mother after I put the OS on a SSD for her. The problem now is I cant seem to get the drive to format back to 2TB? not sure what to do. 

[SpookyCitrus]

If you haven't already tried these programs already there are much easier ways of trying to clone the drive, have both drives in either a bay or simply connected to a computer via sata(power and data cable) then use a cloning software like Paragon or Rawcopy by Roadkill. Macrium is also another good one however it doesn't work to well with failing drives. I prefer doing clones with those types of software over a cloning bay personally, I do probably 4 or 5 drive clones a day and usually Roadkill's Rawcopy get's the job done even with failing drives, just make sure the target disk is equal to or bigger in size than the drive you want to clone.

[lonestar31]

The target disk is bigger as it is 2TB, however the disk is reading as only 1TB after cloning and formatting will not revert it back to 2. Will one of those programs help reconvert it?

[jah118]

Could you add a screenshot of the disk from  disk management so we could see the partitions of the drives how that divided?

 

[lonestar31]

May have to come back to this guys, school just sent message they want parents to pick up kids due to storms. Thanks for the help and I will try to get that screen shot later. 

[lonestar31]

Here is the screen shot you requested, it is labeled disk 2 and 3