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I have a series problem in my laptop Asus. I thought to upgrade my laptop existing hdd(500gb)with sdd(kingstone 240gb). So i bought new ssd with sabrent adaptor. While cloning in destination disk c drive shown with red round ❌ mark so the cloning is failed. How to solve the problem.please help me. 

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Guna, welcome to these public User Forums.

See KB 2201: Support for OEM Versions of Acronis Products which applies to all OEM versions of ATI supplied with hardware purchases.

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.

It is strongly recommended that you should make a full disk backup of your current working laptop HDD to an external USB storage drive - this is your safety net in case of any errors or issues arising when making changes such as cloning, replacing drives etc.

KB 65520: Acronis True Image 2021: how to back up files or disks

KB 65468: Acronis True Image 2021: how to back up entire computer

It is also recommended to create Acronis bootable rescue media before attempting further operations as this is required should you need to restore your computer.

See KB 65508: Acronis True Image 2021: how to create bootable media and KB 59877: Acronis True Image: how to distinguish between UEFI and Legacy BIOS boot modes of Acronis Bootable Media

Finally, you should also consider using Backup & Recovery instead of using cloning.  If you follow the recommended advice, then you will already have a full disk Backup image which would allow you to remove the laptop HDD and replace it by the new SSD, then restore the backup by booting the laptop using the rescue media.

KB 65539: Acronis True Image 2021: How to restore your computer with WinPE-based or WinRE-based media

See forum topic: Steve migrate NVMe SSD where I have documented (with images) the process that I have used multiple times for my own laptops using Backup & Recovery.  This process works for all types of laptop SSD, not just NVMe ones.

Final comment: check how much free space is available on your source 500GB HDD to ensure that the data from that drive will fit on the much smaller 240GB SSD.  You should have a minimum of 20% free space available on the SSD if you want to see the performance benefits of that type of drive, i.e. around 50GB free space, leaving about 190GB of space for the data from the HDD.  If you don't have that free space then you need to get a bigger SSD.