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Cloning drive with True Image HD 2014 has pc stuck in boot loop

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I bought a Crucial 256gb SSD for my laptop to boot from and it came with a coupon for acronis True image hd 2014. I initialized the drive and told it to clone my C drive. Selected automatic and it restarted and booted with the Acronis loader and cloned all of the partitions and shut down. All of this was normal.

Heres where the problem starts. After I booted it up from that shut down, it booted again into acronis loader.
The operation progress bar status says "Preparing" but after about 20 seconds a text box pops up saying "Acronis Bootable Agent is waiting for removable devices"----"One or more of your removable disks may not have started at the moment. Click 'Yes' to wait for full startup of the devices(recommended). Click 'No' to ignore uninitialized devices and continue. Click 'Cancel' to stop the current operation. Do you want to wait for the devices startup?"

Clicking yes just goes back to the progress bar for 15 seconds and then the same text box with the 3 choices comes up again. Clicking 'No' or 'Cancel', makes the computer restart and boot RIGHT BACK into ACRONIS LOADER and just repeats the exact same process I mentioned above. My laptop will not boot up into Windows and this is very frustrating.

Please help.

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Greetings Ryan,
Did you follow these steps when performing the clone?

https://kb.acronis.com/content/2931

MVP tuttle's post on cloning is something to consider:

https://forum.acronis.com/forum/76406#comment-234464