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Brand new desktop - cloned HDD to SDD will not boot Windows 10

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Thanks for any assistance in advance...  I just received a brand new desktop.  I added an ADATA SU900 256GB SSD, correctly installed.  Prior to putting any software on my computer, I used the Acronis True Image HD software and cloned the HDD onto the SDD, which consisted mainly of Windows 10.  I then changed the BIOS to boot to SDD first.

My issue is that Windows 10 will not boot.  I get a black screen for an extended period of time until I reboot into BIOS to change the boot drive back to the HDD to successfully boot back into windows.

Any help would really be appreciated!

 

W

 

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W, welcome to these User Forums.

From your description above, it sounds like you are connecting both the HDD and the SSD drives at the same time but connected to different SATA controller ports.  This is not advised.

The Windows Boot Configuration Data for the HDD has details of the SATA port that drive is connected to but when you try to boot from the SSD on a different port, that BCD information does not match the configuration.

Try removing the HDD (temporarily) and connect the SSD to the port that the HDD used, then try booting into Windows.

Please note that Acronis True Image HD is not the same as ATIH 2017 - this is an OEM version of the software and may be either equivalent to ATIH 2016 or 2015 versions but may be of limited functionality.

Thanks for the reply and the help Steve.  I tried what you suggested and it still did not boot, I just received the same black screen.  Any other ideas?

Sorry to hear that the suggestions didn't help, it is possible that the SSD copy of Windows or important parts of this have been corrupted from booting into Windows with both drives connected where these have the same disk signature etc.

Please see topic: [IMPORTANT] CLONING - How NOT to do this!!! which was written because of these type of situations from cloning.