Hard Drive Won't Clone

[RVB]

I have an old Dell Optiplex 760 SFF, Windows XP, 80GB Maxtor HDD (Crystaldisk says it's done 81036 hours, condition = 'good').

When I ask Macrium to clone it to a SSD, I repeatedly get a message (within a few seconds) saying:
Failed to create volume snapshot. Result code 0x8000ffff. Clone failed - Error 0.

Earlier I successfully cloned an even older Optiplex 755 SFF, Windows XP, 80GB HDD and everything works fine since its failing HDD (Crystaldisk condition = 'caution') was replaced with 120GB SSD.

Any ideas what I can do to clone the drive of the Optiplex 760?

Thanks!

Edited by RVB on Thursday 18th May 11:20

[Drive Blind]

how much free space have you got on the drive being cloned?

been years since I've done a drive clone but I recall a drive being too full maybe causing problems.

[RVB]

Thanks for replying. The hard drive is a little less than half full, around 35GB used out of 80GB.

[FourWheelDrift]

Is it the volume order on the drive being a problem, you have it split into partitions and the partition it's seeing first is too small?

I remember trying to clone a 512GB NVMe to a 1TB NVMe with Macrium and it kept throwing up errors.

To make it work I had to go through all the options until the start to copy option and then use the back button to go back to the start to see the volumes and it was now a window where I could move partitions around and get them in the right order for it to copy properly.

Then when done you can merge unused smaller partitions into the new first main partition in Windows.