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Unable to boot after backing up and restoring to SSD

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Master Drive: Crucial SSD 500 GB

OS: Windows 10

C Drive: 500 GB with windows 10. (used 140 GB)

D Drive: 1.5 TB

First Backup the C with the reserved space, MBR. Back up to D drive

From the Acronis boot cd. Restore to Crucial SSD

After restoring. When i try removing the Hard disk and try to boot from ssd. Got a message winload.exe not found

I unplug ssd and try to boot from hard disk. Getting a message Operating system not available.

when i plugged in both drives in bios boot priority made first to crucial ssd it boots. but i can only see C and D. I am unable to see ssd drive there. But if i look in task manager SSD is there as Disk 0

When i check the drives from computer management. the entire 500 GB is showing as system reserved and used space is only showing in properties as 100  MB which i assume is the system reserved.

 

I tried cloning from hard drive to ssd. when i clone in source i exclude drive D but after cloning completed when i try to boot i am getting a message operating system not available.

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Please see KB document: 56634: Acronis True Image 2016: Cloning Disks and follow the guide there for cloning your disk drive - the key points in doing this are as follows:

  1. Do not attempt to clone from within Windows!  Always use the Acronis bootable Rescue Media to do this.  This can be created on DVD or USB stick, plus can be made either with the standard, linux based OS media, or with Windows PE media.  Using a USB stick is the recommended method but do not use a USB stick larger than 32GB in size - an old 1GB stick will do fine!
  2. Remove the source drive from your computer and replace it with the new target drive that you want to clone to.
  3. Connect the removed source drive via USB or in a second drive position.
  4. Boot the Rescue Media in the same mode as your Windows OS boots, i.e. if Windows boots in UEFI mode then the Rescue media must be booted the same, other if Legacy then that mode.  
    See webpage: Check if your PC uses UEFI or BIOS to check which way your OS boots.  
  5. Once the Rescue Media has booted, check that you can see both your source (now second/external drive) and your target (now internal drive) and Acronis will allow you to select these.  If all is OK, then go ahead and perform the clone operation.

Note: I would recommend making a full disk backup of your current source disk drive to an external backup drive before embarking on the above, to give you a recovery option if anything goes wrong, i.e. incorrect drive selection! 

Note 2: Cloning can only work with whole disks, you cannot clone selected partitions from a drive!

I have two partition so based on your answer cloning is out of question.

 

But what happen to the back up and restore?

Master Drive: Crucial SSD 500 GB

OS: Windows 10

C Drive: 500 GB with windows 10. (used 140 GB)

D Drive: 1.5 TB

First Backup the C with the reserved space, MBR. Back up to D drive

From the Acronis boot cd. Restore to Crucial SSD

After restoring. When i try removing the Hard disk and try to boot from ssd. Got a message winload.exe not found

I unplug ssd and try to boot from hard disk. Getting a message Operating system not available.

when i plugged in both drives in bios boot priority made first to crucial ssd it boots. but i can only see C and D. I am unable to see ssd drive there. But if i look in task manager SSD is there as Disk 0

When i check the drives from computer management. the entire 500 GB is showing as system reserved and used space is only showing in properties as 100  MB which i assume is the system reserved.

If we assume that you have successfully restored a copy of your Windows 10 OS C:\ partition plus the hidden System Reserved partition and MBR from your HDD to your new Crucial SSD.

Where is the SSD connected when you attempt to boot from it?

Is it connect in the same physical location (cable connector / controller) where the HDD was connected when it was able to boot successfully?

If the SSD is connected in a different location / to a different cable connector or controller, then it will not boot because this no longer matches the information recorded by Windows in the Boot Configuration Data store (BCD).

It is not sufficient to just change boot drive priority in the BIOS to get the SSD to boot into Windows 10.

From your final statement about "the entire 500 GB is showing as system reserved and used space is only showing in properties as 100  MB", it seems that my assumption above is incorrect, and you have not successfully restored a copy of your Windows C:\ partition and hidden System Reserved partition to the SSD.

I would recommend starting again in this process.

Make a new Disks & Partitions backup of your System Reserved and Windows 10 partitions to your D: partition.
When selecting these partitions, ensure that you are looking at the Full partition list on the Source selection panel so that the hidden partitions are shown.

Next, connect the SSD drive and restore the new backup to the SSD without resizing the partition sizes, so that you have an identical copy of the partitions from the HDD drive.

Shutdown the system fully - making sure that you are not going into Windows Fast Start hybrid shutdown = Hibernation.

Remove the HDD drive and replace it with the SSD connecting to the same cables.  Leave the HDD removed at this point.

Now try to boot from the SSD and check that it boots correctly without needing to make any changes in BIOS / boot priority etc - this should not be needed if you are just replacing the HDD with the SSD and the contents are identical.

If all starts up correctly, then you can either connect the HDD via USB and reformat the original Windows & System Reserved partition or remove these and expand the D: partition to use the whole drive.

At this point, you can now reconnect the HDD internally within the system as the second drive.

I did all the step except i didn't put the cable of the hard drive to SSD. Will try that. thanks. If not will follow your steps again. Thanks for sending detail explanation.