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How to stop clone from becoming the boot drive?

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I have two SSD drives. One is my system disk (Intel M.2) and the other (Samsung SATA SSD) is it's clone (backup). After cloning, the clone "takes over" as the boot drive when I restart.

How can I prevent that from happening?

I'm happy for these drives to remain as they were as the M.2 is much faster i.e. M.2 as system and SATA SSD as just the backup.

I've set the BIOS but after cloning it loses the setting.

Windows 10 - Acronis 2019

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Nathan, welcome to these public User Forums.

The purpose of cloning in ATI is that the target cloned disk drive will become the Boot drive with the intention that the source drive for the clone will be removed.

For your scenario, you would need to go into the BIOS boot settings and reselect the M.2 SSD option for 'Windows Boot Manager' as the primary boot device.

Ideally, after cloning you should either remove the cloned disk drive if not intending to boot from it, before booting into Windows, or else swap out the source drive.