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Okay whats happening here windows 64 bit cloning to cruical ssd

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The present layout drive 0 windows 7 32 bit and drive 1 windows 7 64 bit

Since only one drive has arrived the other lost in the post somewhere I decided to clone the windows 64 bit to new the ssd drive.

Ist attempt within windows 64 bit cloned and shut down the pc connected the new ssd in place of the old velocity raptor and windows 64 bit just rebooted straight away no bsod or anything. Same with safe mode.

2nd attempt tried backing up from previous image same result.

3rd attempt tried doing the same from within windows 7 32 bit and same result.

Since there's a new bios out for the motherboard decided to try that in case that's screwy with ssd's and same result which I expected.

Got fed up and decided to clone windows 7 32 bit too see if that failed and that worked first time.

So when the other drive turns up any ideas?

Still to try booting off cd and doing the image restore.

Trying a repair jobby

doing a clean install as a test.

Try cloning to another hard drive and see if that screws up as a test.

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Okay finally the second ssd turned up after our post office crushed the original....
With the 32 bit Windows 7 working fine I manually aligned the drive and then turned my attention back to windows 7 64 bit.
This time I resized the partitions before cloning and guess what Acronis filled it back out so that wasn't aligned any more. However the reboot problem still was there.
Anyway booting off the orginal hard disk I re-aligned the drive then left everything until the next morning as doing this takes a lot of time.
So I booted off Windows 7 64 bit and that found errors and the next reboot worked perfectly.
So Acronis 2011 doesn't align drives properly and doesn't clone properly either where ssd's are concerned. Strange as I've cloned normal disks without any problems and without a need of a repair.
Scheduled backup also fails as the drive identifiers have changed as well.

If you clone a disk that is not aligned to an SSD, your result will not be aligned, unless you manually adjust the offset and size of partitions to align the cloned information.
With a backup and restore, it is easy to manually adjust the adjust the offset and size during restore.