Direkt zum Inhalt

Cloned SSd wont boot

Thread solved

HI, I used Acronis to clone a hdd on my laptop using usb to fit into another laptop, I followed all instructions to do this and when fitted to the laptop it says "no bootable drive found. I looked in the bios and the new drive is there, can anyone tell me how to get the drive to boot.. Thanks

0 Users found this helpful

Gordon, welcome to these public User Forums.

Please see KB 56634: Acronis True Image: how to clone a disk - and review the step by step guide given there.

Note: the first section of the above KB document directs laptop users to KB 2931: How to clone a laptop hard drive - and has the following paragraph:

It is recommended to put the new drive in the laptop first, and connect the old drive via USB. Otherwise you will may not be able to boot from the new cloned drive, as Acronis True Image will apply a bootability fix to the new disk and adjust the boot settings of the target drive to boot from USB. If the new disk is inside the laptop, the boot settings will be automatically adjusted to boot from internal disk. As such, hard disk bays cannot be used for target disks. For example, if you have a target hard disk (i.e. the new disk to which you clone, and from which you intend to boot the machine) in a bay, and not physically inside the laptop, the target hard disk will be unbootable after the cloning.

The other issue that may be at work here is whether both laptops are using the same BIOS boot mode to start Windows?

KB 59877: Acronis True Image: how to distinguish between UEFI and Legacy BIOS boot modes of Acronis Bootable Media

If both laptops are capable of booting into Windows, then run the command: msinfo32 on each one and check the value for the BIOS mode that is shown in the right side panel of the report shown.