HP Cloning failure: No bootable image
Dear All,
I have an HP 4740s with a Samsung EVO 840 500gB + Windows 10 which I started to clone to an external Samsung EVO 850 500gB drive in a PNY USB3 carrier using Acronis True Image HD downloaded from http://MyMigrationSoftware.pny.eu with a key included with the carrier (which goes to http://www.acronis.com/en-us/promo/tihd2015-download/?utm_medium=third_…).
After installing the Acronis I started clone with the internal SSD as source and external as destination.
There was a message telling me to reboot by clicking yes which I did.
On restart I get the "No bootable image found, notbook will shutdown".
Looking through these forums this seems to be not unknown.
My question is:
What has the Acronis software done and how can I undo it?
I have tried resetting the BIOS, putting the 840 drive in the external carrier to reboot all to no avail.
Plugging the 840 drive into a linux box shows the files seem there.
It is exactly as Aurel's hijack of https://forum.acronis.com/forum/95199 (Aurel, join in here if want).
Also https://forum.acronis.com/forum/114619
How can I create a Universal rescue DVD/USB?
In Acronis My Products & Downloads i see "Acronis True Image OEM Activation (English) 1 license(s)"
and "Acronis provides support for the current and immediately preceding versions of the product. The version that you selected is no longer supported. We recommend you to upgrade to the latest version of the product." Arghh..
The consensus seems to be "When cloning boot from Rescue..". If that is the case why are we allowed to do otherwise?
How can I get back?


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Thanks for your reply Steve... If only your points were pushed in ones face when selecting clone or cloning of a running OS disk is only allowed from Rescue Media.
I've given up with Acronis and as have the original SSD (EVO 840) with data intact I'm doing a fresh install of Windows 10 to the EVO 850.
Cheers.
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memiself, if you use your acronis bootable offline recovery media (burn a DVD or create a bootable UsB drive with Acronis) and boot into that, you should be good to go. There's no point in doing backups or clones unless your bootable media is working. If Windows can't/won't boot, you need to have working offline media to restore images with. I wish Acronis would actually remove the ability to start these items from within Windows as the default enivronment is Linux and may not have the necessary drivers... or, a users bios may not be configured to allow booting to something other than Windows. Using the bootable recovery media to start with and making sure you can boot into it before cloning will prevent these types of issues.
Here are some video tutorials and uesr videos of the offline media and how to use it once you've created it.
https://forum.acronis.com/forum/117004
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