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Trying to restore a full backup to an ssd ... the original was on an hdd

WIndows 10.  Acronis True Image 2018.  Want to replace a 1000 GB HDD with a 500 GB SSD.  No change in hardware other than that.  As far as I know, I followed the instructions carefully - referring to them on my laptop step by step.  I used the Rescue Media - checked that it could see both the new drive and the source of the backup file on a WD My Cloud acting as a NAS.  You don't change the BIOS to boot from the CD/DVD any more, because it's UEFI ... so you override the boot order.  That was fine.  Acronis True Image comes on the screen after a little command window shows it starting.

The only difference I noticed between the instructions and what I saw was that in the restore process, there were several steps, whereas the instructions seemed to only have one.  I can repeat the whole thing and make notes and post them.

Should I reformat the SSD before I do this?  There was stuff on the disk, because I had tried a clone with ATI 2017, only to discover that a USB-clone (which it was) was said to not be bootable.  Thinking that was solved with ATI 2018, I purchased that, but no luck.

Any advice would be appreciated.

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Christian, welcome to these User Forums.

I would recommend cleaning the target SSD drive before attempting the restore, this should then allow you to do this whole operation from within the Windows ATI 2018 application without the need to boot using the Rescue Media.

The key consideration here is that the contents of your 1TB HDD source drive will actually fit on the 500GB SSD drive and still leave up to around 20% free space for best operation of the SSD.

Microsoft impose the restriction on not being able to boot Windows from any USB drives, plus it is best not to try to boot into Windows with two drives connected which both are duplicates of each other, and can both have the same disk signature, this can corrupt one or both of these drives in doing so.

Note: ATI 2018 can also do an online Clone from your HDD to the SSD using the Microsoft VSS to create snapshot data provided the target drive is empty.  If an OS is detected on the target drive then it will require a reboot.