Originally Posted by
scole of TSBT
After running the Migrate Easy trial for over 5 hours I decided to contact Acronis support to make sure replying "ignore all" would allow it to continue. I typed up the case in pretty good detail, posted it on the support chat and spent the first 20 minutes with Pandeep as he repeated everything I typed while I replied "yes....yes...yes..." (you know the routine), then lots of "thank you for your patience"...and finally he replied I could not clone a disk using the Migrate Easy trial. After assuring him the option was enabled, provided him with a link their support page which says the trial version has full functionality and it had indeed been running for 5 hours, he repeated disk cloning was not supported in the trial version and I had to use the full Acronis True Image product. I thanked him for wasting an hour of time and closed the page. The Migrate Easy disk cloning process was still running but the estimated time remaining kept slowly going up. After it went from 30 minutes to 1:30, I decided to stop it and try another option. I installed the trial version of True Image, but disk cloning is disabled in that version. Good grief! I tried Migrate Easy again on a different system. When it got the EXT2 partition, it got very slow again, but there were no sector read errors. It took a total of about 5 hours to clone a 1TB drive. It didn't save the boot loader though so I had to reinstall that. It's all up and running. If I had known all the trouble and time it would take I would have just cloned the NTFS partition and reinstalled linux. Whole thing would have taken less than 2 hours.
I tried the WD version of Acronis too. It installed and the selection process ran, but setting up the source and destination disks and clicking the proceed button, I expected to see a window displaying the status/progress. There was nothing the window closed, nothing else opened up and there were no processed running that I could see.