SSD Drives

Having trouble cloning to (Two) Crucial SSD drives.
Keeps coming up with 'cannot clone because the Sector sizes are different'
In the past have use Sandisk without this problem.
Attempt was made on Two Laptops and two Desk Top computers.
Surely the sellers of SSd's should make it clear that there is a Sector requirement.

Strange, it should work. what software are you using? i use Macrium reflect and I have never had a problem and it is free.

You cannot clone disks if they have different logical sector sizes. Instead, you should create an image of the input disk and restore it to the output disk.

Using 'provided' Acronis download with Licence Number included !!!!!
Have sent an email (Sat) to Crucial for advice.
Will try Macrium Reflect after hearing from Crucial.
Thanks

In reply to a post by micksharpe:

You cannot clone disks if they have different logical sector sizes. Instead, you should create an image of the input disk and restore it to the output disk.

But if you clone a disk onto another drive, then surly the destination drive is formatted or am I missing something here?

Cloning bypasses formatting. That's the point.

In reply to a post by micksharpe:

Cloning bypasses formatting. That's the point.

True, so what if the OP deleted the partitions from the destination drive, that would work or it does for me.

Having sought the Advice from Crucial.
Among their 'Advice' was to initialize the Drive.
That had already been done.
Further advice was to DOWNLOAD FIRMWARE.
At this point I decided enough is enough and asked that the send me the necessary information to be able to claim my money back.
Their guarantee states Money Back within 45 Days.
So here goes.
Contact was made with Crucial in this regard on Friday the 9th of September 2016.
Lets see what now transpires.
Decided not to try Other Programs e.g.Macrium/Paragon.

I have no idea why you are having problems, I have cloned a fair few disks over the last few years, spinny to spinny, spinny to SSD, SSD to spinny and SSD to SSD and never had the problem you are having, I have used Acornis in the past, it works, but not the best software I have used.
Is the crucial drive working, can you use it as a second drive? If so then the drive is not at fault.
Is this the first time you have cloned a drive? do not give up so easily, Crucial drives are fine, I normally use corsair myself, but I know people who do have crucial drives.

I have tried to clone drives in Two Laptops. I have tried to clone the same Laptops with two different drives inserted.
I have tried to clone drives in Computer One, in each of three different caddies (at a time when the caddy is running ON IT'S OWN each time.
Similar in Computer Two on the same terms as described above.
All drives mentioned are the result of being cloned from new by Acronis without a problem (running well for a number of years).
The Crucial SSD's drives come with an invitation to use Acronis with Acronis True Image HD software activation with a Serial Number.
The print on the box states ';easily migrate your data to your new crucial SSD',
Repeating myself: On the attempt to clone each and every time it states CANNOT CLONE USE ANOTHER DRIVE.
The reason for this email was to bring up the latest from Crucial.
Crucial have agreed to supply a RMA number for both drives and a Freepost address.
My email asking for this was sent Friday and their reply time dated 9am today Monday.
I give them my respect.I have been a customer over many years for their memory.Without a problem.
As an aside I have purchased two Sandisk SSD's and cloned two separate drives on two different computers using Acronis, they have been running satisfactorily for some Months.
I have no wish to jump through Hoops, buy Paragon,Macrium or other programs.
On investigation as a NON expert it appears having Sectors of 512 bytes and using Crucial /Acronis is a no, no.( I presume this is why Paragon makes a play of being able to Clone different size sectors, otherwise why MENTION this on their Box.
Last I still have Respect for Crucial/ Micron.

Fair enough, Macium reflect is free by the way, the free version will clone and image, pretty good as well, Just for future reference.

Drives posted today 13/9/16.
Address as given in first email to Return to, is different to another address given in second email received the same day.!!!!!!!!!
Although they give a Freepost address, I paid myself for a Signed for Validation.
Now wheels are in motion lets see what transpires.
Sandisk assures me I will find their SSD drives suitable for cloning.
I was aware Macium was free. but did not want to possibly mess up the Crucial drives (in my ignorance no doubt.

Fair enough, hope it all goes well.

Thankfully I only had trouble with one drive and had to send it back and that was a 120GB Seagate drive, it got sent back 3 times and replaced and yet I still could not get it to work correctly, this was a spinny drive, so I gave it to a friend and they put it int heir computer and it worked fine.
Never been a fan of seagate to be honest, even if I do have three of their drives.

SSd changes things a bit, hopefully bring better reliability.

Might I suggest that the problems you are having have been caused by the extremely BAD Instructions/Information that you have had from both Crucial & Acronis!!

I was trying to replace an existing SSD with a larger Drive (the whole purpose of the reason for replacing).

Initially, it appeared to ONLY want to re-create an identically sized partition & leaving the rest redundant (or possibly configured as an additional Drive).

I eventually succeeded, but it was more by a combination of Trial & Error (with a lot of luck, rather than judgement, thrown in)!!


ps:- I do note that you are eventually going for a refund - I really don't blame you!!

Conclusion:
Received the second refund from Crucial to day 24th Sept.
Although the two drives were enclosed in the same return envelope the dates of the refunds
were different namely:
1st received from PayPal on 19th Sept.
2nd received from PayPal on 24th Sept.
Must say Crucial/Micron never failed to reply to any of my emails.
As mentioned in another post, I have respect for them.