Ez gig iv ..freezes and Cloning without exclusive access?

[Audiowiz]

I'm using aprecon's EZ gig iv to clone my old maxed out( full) 60gig drive, every few days my laptop saysnim out of free space, even though i keep deleting files and programs
..running windows XP sp3. On a fujitsu life book t4020 : centurion 1.8 ghz, 1gig ram, windows Xp pro, sp3' tablet edition.

1. Ez gig iv keeps freezing from CD ..get to select source drive and freezes
2. I downloaded and ran from USB thumb drive
..this gets me further to selecting all parameters and even allocating an 80 gb partition
.. After I click start clone, >> I get a prompt to close all open files/ prams ..all are closed
.. After this,
WARNING: the following drives could no be opens for exclusive access - C:

Q? Should I copy without exclusive access?
Am I doing something wrong by trying to run ez gig from thumb drive?

Thx for your help !

 

[Laurensschu]

I'm using aprecon's EZ gig iv to clone my old maxed out( full) 60gig drive, every few days my laptop saysnim out of free space, even though i keep deleting files and programs
..running windows XP sp3. On a fujitsu life book t4020 : centurion 1.8 ghz, 1gig ram, windows Xp pro, sp3' tablet edition.

1. Ez gig iv keeps freezing from CD ..get to select source drive and freezes
2. I downloaded and ran from USB thumb drive
..this gets me further to selecting all parameters and even allocating an 80 gb partition
.. After I click start clone, >> I get a prompt to close all open files/ prams ..all are closed
.. After this,
WARNING: the following drives could no be opens for exclusive access - C:

Q? Should I copy without exclusive access?
Am I doing something wrong by trying to run ez gig from thumb drive?

Thx for your help !

Normally, you could just continue.
It will not hurt your current drive. In theory the copy on you new drive could be damaged, but have never seen it cause real trouble.
Can read some more in the manual: https://www.apricorn.com/media/uploads/EZGigIV_Manual.pdf

If you are going to use your new drive, do it this way and test if your programs are working. If they are there is no problem. The problem would only be in files that some of the programs use, but don't expect any!
😉

 

[Charles Ross]

I was having many troubles getting EZ Gig IV to complete - many of these described issues were encountered. The main trouble condition was that it would stay on the Copy phase at 95% forever, while saying "updating Drive Information" or words like that.
Finally I had a succesful run after I changed around drive letters on some of my existing partitions. I noticed one of my partitions was locked while EZ Gig was loaded, and it dawned on me that the final pahse of EZ Gig is where it is trying to set up the cloned SSD with newly assigned Windows drive letters. I think it handles the C: drive situation OK because it assumes that the source drive will have been C: and the new drive it is cloing to will be C:, but it was also trying to assign A: or B: to a new data partition it created on the new SSD.

When I removed the drive letters "A" and "B" from my existing partitions in Windows, all the delays were gone and EZG managed to finish in around an hour just like it's time tracking screen fields predicted, and the new SSD booted just perfect.

This is an HP Pavilion running Windows 8.1, had to go thru all the UEFI secure boot hoops and snakes - took me a couple weeks of overnight attempts to get this to finally work.

Part of the problem with EZ Gig is that it is so simple - when things like this go astray, it doesn't tell you why. That would complicate things. I'd say the same for their support website. It has some good info, but most info concerning badness is all hidden.