Regardless of the configuration, every time I hit the step where cloning is to begin (and click the box to shut down after the cloning operation is completed), the software pauses a few seconds, then a pop-yup box announces 'Clone Disk Operation Failed.'
In every case I have inserted the Acronis disk in the disk drive and booted the computer so that it is reading from the CD during boot. The problem is that I've run the software multiple times, both with the original hard drive installed in the laptop and the Crucial drive attached via USB, and with the new Crucial hard drive in the machine and the original hard drive attached via USB adapter. Since it was shipped in December 2013 I make the possibly mistaken assumption that it is version 2014. The version of Acronis provided with the 'cloning kit' shows 'Revision 5294' on the disk, but there is no other information about the version of Acronis. I have used WIndows to creat a system backup of the original hard drive. This requires cloning the existing hard disk to the SS drive.
I have a Lenovo Ideapad Z580 laptop and I'm trying to install a Crucial M500 solid state drive in it.
