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Hello, I am using Acronis Migrate Easy to clone an IDE drive to a Sata drive in order to provide one of our employees with a better computer while keeping all of his old settings and data, however when I try to boot off of the copied drive I get the standard windows "I'm sorry your computer could not boot" message.

I am cloning onto a clean drive.
The OS is Windows XP Professional.

Please let me know if you need any more information.

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Don't clone. Create a full disk mode backup, then restore that backup to the new drive after it is installed into the PC.

I will give this a try thanks. Does the backup require the machine to restart like the clone does?

EDIT: I do not see an option for a full disk backup. I see Disc Clone and Add New Disk. I also have Create Bootable Rescue Media.

There will be a Backup option.

Grover's How to Create/Manage Backup Tasks & Backups within Windows (includes How to Create a "Disk Image" or "Disk Mode" Image or "Disk mode" image & more) http://forum.acronis.com/forum/38691

You should create the bootable Rescue Media, as you should boot from that to do the restore.

Ahh. Unfortunately that is not the program I use, or not the same version. I am using Acronis Migrate Easy Ver. 7.
My version does not have those options.

IVEK IS Associate wrote:

Ahh. Unfortunately that is not the program I use, or not the same version. I am using Acronis Migrate Easy Ver. 7

Then why did you post in the Acronis True Image Forum?

I posted in the Acronis True Image - OLDER VERSIONS forum. Because Acronis True Image is an upgraded version of Migrate Easy.

I have just upgraded to Acronis True Image and will be attempting the backup/restore from IDE to Sata and see if that works better.

I also stated in my first post that I was using Migrate Easy.

I have backed up my IDE drive to the Sata drive and created a bootable flash drive, but when I boot from the flash drive to restore the data onto the sata drive and select the data from my IDE drive, my destination is greyed out. Have I missed a step?

Ivek,

Migrate Easy 7 hasn't been upgraded in a long while. You might find you need to 'reverse clone' by placing the Sata drive into the computer and the IDE drive into an external caddy and then clone. Make sure that you do this whilst booted from the recovery environment which is either on a CD or USB stick.

To answer your last comment, what product did you use to make a complete disk image?