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Acronis only acknowledges SSD during backup

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I have a real dilemma here.

I cloned my hard drive to my new SSD. Simple enough. I made bootable rescue media on my USB flash drive. Also simple.

I went through all the necessary steps, including the mandatory reboot. Then, changed my boot order. As it should, I get the Acronis menu! Yay, I'm almost ready to restore my operating system to the SSD!

Until.... Acronis no longer recognizes the SSD. I look in "my disks" under the restore option and find nothing.

To make matters more strange, when I go into my disk manager, I can see my SSD. But if it's hooked up via USB enclosure with the current hard drive, I cannot see it under the "my computer" thing where my hard drive shows up.

My drivers are all updated. I've gone through the process 3 times to make sure I'm doing things correctly. Am I missing something? I MUST be!! Please, please, please reply.

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I'm guessing you have a laptop computer with only one SATA connector for a hard drive, and if so then I'm doubtful I can help. But if you have a desk-top then you can attach the SSD as a second drive to an empty SATA port, (you may have to purchase some inexpensive SATA and power cables or adapters) and it will show up on disk management (I have Win 7 pro 64 bit OS), and you should not have a lot of problems with cloning. The better way to do clone would be to make a full image of your HDD onto an external drive, and subsequently do a restore from a DVD or CD rescue disk, with the SSD previously quick-formatted and placed in the location of the HDD, with the HDD temporarily removed, in order to avoid additional complexities (the quick format may not be necessary, but is easy to do if the SSD appears as a working second drive. Never do a full format on an SSD-only secure erases). I've never booted from USB devices for OS or restore, so I'm not familiar with problems in that area. And if you have a lap-top, I'm sort of clueless. But if you have a laptop, and if you disconnect the DVD drive from SATA and connect the SSD there, and if you can get TI restore booting from a USB device, and working, then that may work. If that doesn't work and with the SSD in the SATA port of the DVD, boot from the OS on the HDD, and then use the TI software on the HDD to clone the SSD. I've been advised that it's always better to do restores from booted TI software, like rescue disks, since it avoids any errors that might exist in the current OS, or whatever. But that said, I have done a clone from the TI software installed on the primary drive, and it did work fine. Also, I've worked with tech support from Kingston, Crucial and Corsair, and found all of them very helpful, in the event you have one of their drives. Anyway, lots of luck!!

If you truly have cloned your HDD to an SSD then why are you trying to boot the drive with it installed in an external enclosure? I suspect you have a laptop like the previous poster. Proper clone procedure for a laptop is to remove the current drive from the laptop and place that drive in an external enclosure. Install new SSD drive into laptop. Boot laptop using Rescue Boot Media and perform clone operation. Shutdown laptop and remove external drive then, reboot laptop.

Having said all that it is safer and advised that you instead do a Disk Mode backup and restore of the current drive as that procedure is less prone to data loss. At a minimum if you do perform the clone instead make sure you perform a Disk Mode backup of the current drive before you do the clone so that if things go wrong you have a backup to restore your system.

Also, in order to boot a Windows bootable disk, that disk must be mounted inside the computer and will not boot from a usb enclosure.
A cloned disk will not boot into Windows from the usb enclosure.