![]() ![]() Steve, thanks for the further information. Touching on cloning Windows drives, the main factor to consider is the BIOS mode that is used by the OS on those drives, and that this must match the BIOS mode used by the system where the clone is being performed! This is done by Acronis to keep cloning as simple as possible for inexperienced users where the expectation is that the cloned drive will go into the same PC! There is no option to choose the partition scheme in the clone tool! If you attempt to clone a Legacy boot (MBR) drive on a PC booted in UEFI / GPT mode, then clone matches the cloned drive to the PC GPT mode. I have never attempted to clone a Synology NAS drive or any Linux EXT4 drive, so do not know whether ATI will attempt to impose similar partition scheme rules on those drives!! Linux does support both GPT and MBR but may object if it finds a scheme it isn't expecting. If you are considering using the Acronis Rescue Media to do cloning, then the same considerations apply but you can choose to boot the media in Legacy or UEFI mode, assuming your PC supports doing so (using CSM for Legacy). You may want to look at using CloneZilla for the Synology EXT4 drive clone in that case as this is intended for use with Linux file systems. I would do the same as recommended by Steve. Since you only have one "working" instance of the original drive, I would recommend taking a "backup" of it with whatever tool you can and saving that backup image somewhere safe - just in case. ![]()
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