Can't boot with the new SSD after cloning the system with Acronis Sabrent
Twice I have tried cloning my system that sits on a 256GB SSD to my 500GB Sabrent Rocket NVMe 4.0. After the cloning is done, I shut the laptop, take out the old SSD stick, and turn the laptop on; however, both times, Windows wasn't able to boot. It goes into diagnostics and fails to repair. Any help would be much appreciated.


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I would imagine the issue is that moving from SSD to a PCIe NVME is not a true clone because the hardware/technology is different (not like a spinning drive and an SSD that are both SATA).
If the clone is successful, you may need to still go into the bios and specifically select the new drive as the first boot priority or it could be trying to boot something else like a CD rom, or external USB that is not bootable.
Ultimately though, I would try without cloning. Instead, make a full disk backup of the original drive. Then restore that backup to the new NVME drive. Disconnect the original, boot DIRECTLY INTO THE BIOS first and then make sure the new drive has first boot priority.
Also, we don't know how the original OS is/was installed? If it was a legacy (MBR) install and you cloned the drive, a PCIe NVME drive will never boot as it must be UEFI. If it is a Windows 7 OS, it will not boot by default since Windows 7 doesn't have native drivers to boot on a PCIe NVME drive (it can be done, but not natively). These are Windows limitations, but there is no background on the original system OS name and version, the original system OS install type (MBR/Legacy or UEF/GPT) and/or if the bios was configured with the correct boot settings.
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@Steve Smith Unfortunately I can't connect the old drive via USB cause even though it's SATA it's a PCIe stick as well and I don't have an enclosure box. That being said, that shouldn't be the problem as I completely take out the old disk before booting with the new one for the first time.
@Bobbo_3C0X1 I'm using Win10 Hone Edition. I always make sure that the boot order is in place.
However, I think you are onto something, regarding SATA to NVMe clone. I just checked the newly cloned disk through Disk Management, by putting it into another machine. The disk's largest partition is shown as (Primary Partition) but not (Boot, Page File, Crush Dump, Primary Partition). So I believe indeed it's not bootable.
I have just back up my system drive, and started recovering to the new drive with that image. I report the results once it's done but please let me know if you think of anything else.
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