Acronis only acknowledges SSD during backup
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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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.
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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.
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