Windows 10: Macrium Reflect disk clone: Target disk has incompatible sector size

Discus and support Macrium Reflect disk clone: Target disk has incompatible sector size in Windows 10 Backup and Restore to solve the problem; [img] I formatted the 4TB ext HDD as NTFS to no avail 167044 Discussion in 'Windows 10 Backup and Restore' started by dictum, Oct 25, 2020.

  1. dictum Win User

    Macrium Reflect disk clone: Target disk has incompatible sector size


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    I formatted the 4TB ext HDD as NTFS to no avail

    :)
     
    dictum, Oct 25, 2020
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  2. dictum Win User

    Problems booting with cloned disk created with Macrium Reflect

    Trying to fix C: and getting this:



    Macrium Reflect disk clone: Target disk has incompatible sector size [​IMG]





    Macrium Reflect disk clone: Target disk has incompatible sector size [​IMG]


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    > SIW2 to label partition 1

    How do I label the partition 1? Not possible via the Disk Management tool. You can see the
    Macrium Reflect disk clone: Target disk has incompatible sector size [​IMG]
    "Change drive letter" field is grayed out



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    OK, I will try doing so with diskpart command line tool. That step was missing in the instructions above.

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    I made the Disk 0 part 1 = K

    Does this look right before I run it?


    Macrium Reflect disk clone: Target disk has incompatible sector size [​IMG]


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    Trying the G drive first:


    Macrium Reflect disk clone: Target disk has incompatible sector size [​IMG]


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    and what does this mean?


    Macrium Reflect disk clone: Target disk has incompatible sector size [​IMG]
     
    dictum, Oct 25, 2020
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  3. Cloned WIN10/64 Boot drive will not Boot! Boot volume stays OFFLINE

    Rather than using the Macrium Reflect cloning process, I have had better success with this method:

    1. Create an image of the old disk. Park it on an external disk.
    2. Create a Macrium Reflect USB rescue disk.
    3. Disconnect the old disk, connect the new disk.
    4. Boot the machine with the USB rescue disk.
    5. Restore the image onto the new disk.
    6. Boot the machine with only the new disk connected.
     
    Frederik Long, Oct 25, 2020
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  4. jimbo45 Win User

    Macrium Reflect disk clone: Target disk has incompatible sector size

    Macrium and Linux Disks cloning

    Hi folks
    just in case some people don't realize it but it's 100% possible to clone Linux formatted HDD's / SSD's with Macrium (from within Windows too --you don't need to use the stand alone program).

    Ensure though when you attach the Linux drives / SSD's you ignore Windows request to format them or any messages about "incompatible file systems"

    Simply select clone disks and carry on. The target SSD / HDD can be smaller than the source provided that the /home and / partitions (on Linux) are large enough on the destination drive.

    If you know this already - then OK but I know some people on these Forums use Linux for playing with etc and might not know about easy ways of backing up Linux systems (VM's are easy - this is for physical HDD's/ SSD's)


    Macrium Reflect disk clone: Target disk has incompatible sector size [​IMG]



    The target disk should be bootable in nearly every case -- it'a always worked for me --just remember NOT to format the disks at windows prompt and ignore incompatible file system messages from Windows.

    cheers
    jimbo
     
    jimbo45, Oct 25, 2020
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