SSD not recognized after Cloning?
I used Acronis TI 2014 build 6673 to clone a 120GB OCZ Vertex 3 SSD boot drive with Window 8.1 installed to a 240GB Mushkin Chronos SSD. The OCZ was formatted as GPT and I used a BlackX USB 2 external device for the Mushkin drive. The system I used was an ASRock Z77 OC Formula MB with a 3770K processor. TI did it's thing and all looked ok. However, when I rebooted the Mushkin drive was not found in the BlackX device. I then replaced the OCZ boot drive with the Mushkin drive but the BIOS did not find the Mushkin drive. The Mushkin drive was connected to the Intel SATA3_0 port. I did the Clear CMOS routine and that had no effect. I then put the OCZ drive back in the system as the boot drive and connected the Mushkin drive to one of the Marvell SATA3 ports. The system recognized the drive. I then took the Mushkin drive to a Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H based system and the Mushkin drive was recognized on one of the Marvell ports - for some reason actually it booted to W8.1 from Mushkin drive on the Marvell port.
So...my question is what went wrong with the cloning process that caused the cloned drive to become unacceptable to the Intel Controller?! Should I have made a backup of the OCZ drive and restored it to the Mushkin drive instead of cloning? I think I have done both in the past and never had a problem. Is it the GPT format that is causing the problem? Hopefully, someone else has run into this problem and come up with a solution.

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I attempted to try the "if something gets in your way go around it" approach. Well, I embarrassed I've used Acronis for many years and have restored Boot Disks to new disks many times. However, I can't seem to find the magic path that will allow me to "restore" my Windows System (SSD) to a new SSD using TI 2014. When I do the recovery path routine it wants to restore to the original drive. I'm sure it is obvious but I'm missing it! Can someone please take me through the steps or point me to a tutorial. Thanks in advance.
I'm still waiting for someone to try and explain why the Cloned disk I originally created is recognized by Marvell Controller and not by the Intel Controller. I have this bad feeling that if I ever do figure out how to restore to a new drive using TI 2014 it will have the same problem.
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I broke down and used the CD Boot version of TI2014 and it let me restore the three W8.1 partitions and MBR from the 120GB SSD to the 240GB SSD. As expected, the BIOS does not recognize the 240GB drive when it is connected to the Intel SATA3_0 port.
So...it looks like the restore did the same thing as the Clone function. What is different about the 240SSD that is causing the BIOS to ignore it? Am I the first person using TI to try and upgrade from a 120GB SSD to a 240GB SSD?
AND, of course, my "free" support period is over so Acronis Techs won't communicate with me! Maybe they look at this Forum occasionally?
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http://kb.acronis.com/content/44741
(!) If you clone a disk with Windows to external USB hard drive, you will not be able to boot from it. Windows does not support booting from external USB hard drives. Please clone to internal SATA SSD or HDD instead.
Try again, however this time connect your target disk to the internal SATA connection and put the source disk in the external enclosure. Before cloning or restoring, use the "Add New Disk" function from the bootable recovery media to reinitialize the target disk as GPT.
If it still fails to boot, you should contact Acronis Professional support. All recovery issues are free even after the first 30 days. Just make sure you specify that it is a recovery issue when you contact support.
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As a guide, you can try using the restore guide located in my signature link 3 below, item #1 inside that link.
Use the TI Recovery CD and the target disk should be inside the computer connected to the same connectors as the original 120. The 120 can be connected via cables. Use the "add new disk" routine before restoring and checkmark the "Restore disk signature" offered on the target disk selection screen.
When finished, boot with only the new disk attached.
Are you sure your source disk is MBR rather than GPT?
Is UEFI involved here?
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Joey,
I failed to mention in Post #3 when I used the CD Boot version to restore AND I used an internal Marvell SATA3 connection instead of an external USB device.
GroverH,
Yes, I'm sure the Source Disk is GPT and yes, UEFI is involved and yes I tried booting with only the 240 SSD attached to the Intel SATA3_0 Port. The strange thing is when I connect the 240 SSD to the Intel SATA3_0 port on a Gigabyte GA-Z77-UD5H system the drive is recognized by the BIOS although it hung on booting which I rationalized as a ASRock MB vs Gigabyte MB driver issue(s). I'll give your guide a try and report back.
One concern, I'm playing with Windows 8.1 and it looks like your guide goes to 2013? I had to buy yet another Acronis TI since prior to version 2014 TI had problems with Windows 8 let alone 8.1? It really hurt me to have to give up on my trusted TI 2010 although I was slowly warming up to 2013 on a couple of W8 systems until it was posted that an upgrade was required. Is the recover CD for 2014 going to be an issue?
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Sometimes some SSD's will not work on port 0 but will work on port 1. You might try switching ports and see what happens.
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Bob,
The BIOS does not recognize the SSD in the Intel Port 1 either...BUT...it is recognized in the Intel Port 2?! Something weird is going on with GPT, W8.1 and a 240GB SSD. I'm ready to throw in the towel and just Clone the thing on the Gigabyte system. W8.1 is installed there on an MBR formatted SSD.
GroverH,
Thanks for the pointer to your Tutorials. I thought I did everything right when I did the restore in Post 3 but I must have screwed something up since now I get the infamous 0cx0000225 error when I try to boot from Intel Port 2. At least when I let TI Clone the SSD it would boot from a non-Intel SATA3 Port.
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Question, does your AsRock board use Secure Boot? If so, is it enabled? If so, try disabling Secure Boot and see if that makes a difference.
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Yes, the ASRock does have a Secure Boot option which I Disabled awhile ago but not before I tried to Clone the System. I feel real dumb since a couple years ago I had trouble with a Mushkin SSD that did not get recognized in the swap trays on the Corsair 800D case. I woke up this morning and realized that was part of the problem. I took a fresh start -
Made sure Secure Boot was Disabled in the ASRock MB BIOS.
Connected the OCZ 120GB to SATA3_0 via a standalone cable and connected the Mushkin 240GB to SATA3_1 via a standalone cable.
Booted the CD version of Acronis TI 2014.
Used the New Drive feature of Acronis TI 2014 to clear the Mushkin SSD of any BS that had accumulated.
Set the Mushkin up as GPT.
Cloned the OCZ system to the Mushkin.
Connected the Mushkin to SATA3_0.
It worked with no issues.
So...was it "Secure Boot" being Enable early on, using W8.1 version of TI 2014 to Clone and/or the fact I used W8.1 to originally set up the Mushkin SSD as GPT? I know the 800D case issue was a factor in the drive not being recognized but it did strange things when connected to the Gigabyte System which is a 650D case (standard SATA cables) and would not boot when connected to a ASRock SATA2 Port via a SATA Cable.
Anyway, thanks everybody for all the help if nothing else I learned a little along the way and my faith in Acronis TI is renewed!
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The Secure Boot feature has caused a number of problems for TI users so I suspect that once again that was the core issue here.
Glad you got it sorted out.
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