I wanted to amend my last post but SOS forum seems not to allow edits after some time which is a bit strange.

Anyway, I have managed to format my new drive which now shows in "This PC" The problem now is AOMEI cloning software does not see it. I am stuck.

I am unfamiliar with AOMEI, possibly it doesn't recognise the file system you formatted the disk with, although you probably formatted the disk as NFTS, which it should recognise.

For disk cloning I use the free version of Macrium reflect and never had any issues with it.
https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree

For backup I use SyncBack, which has an excellent free version
https://www.2brightsparks.com/syncback/ ... k-hub.html

If you stick to those you should be OK, although I am not saying that there aren't equally good products out there, but I don't use them.

Trevor Johnson wrote:I am unfamiliar with AOMEI, possibly it doesn't recognise the file system you formatted the disk with, although you probably formatted the disk as NFTS, which it should recognise.

For disk cloning I use the free version of Macrium reflect and never had any issues with it.
https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree

For backup I use SyncBack, which has an excellent free version
https://www.2brightsparks.com/syncback/ ... k-hub.html

If you stick to those you should be OK, although I am not saying that there aren't equally good products out there, but I don't use them.

Thanks but I was looking for something free that I am not tied to paying for once the trial is over.

Marbury wrote:

Trevor Johnson wrote:I am unfamiliar with AOMEI, possibly it doesn't recognise the file system you formatted the disk with, although you probably formatted the disk as NFTS, which it should recognise.

For disk cloning I use the free version of Macrium reflect and never had any issues with it.
https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree

For backup I use SyncBack, which has an excellent free version
https://www.2brightsparks.com/syncback/ ... k-hub.html

If you stick to those you should be OK, although I am not saying that there aren't equally good products out there, but I don't use them.

Thanks but I was looking for something free that I am not tied to paying for once the trial is over.

Sorry to be so direct but might I suggest you read the content of the products' website fully. Both Macrium and SyncBack offer totally free to use as well as 'free to download - trial' versions of their software. And those free versions are very good. I have used both for longer than I care to remember. Both products are regularly updated by the respective companies. All you need to is look at all the web-pages for the options systematically and you'll drop on the respective links for the totally free versions of their products.

I was about to come back to you and say that I had missed the free link. There is just so much clag to read through before you find what you want.

Now I have installed it and attempted to clone, I am getting another brick wall. I am cloning the Windows 10 C drive (500GB) onto a WD 1TB formatted drive but I am getting the error "the target disk has an incompatible sector size for this operation, please choose a different disk" I can't get past this.