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Acronis TrueImage 2013 - Cloned disk, now machine no longer boots...

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I got a new Crucial SSD for my laptop, cloned my C:\ drive to the new SSD (using Crucial EZGIG software), and it all worked fine - machine booted on new disk, no probs.

I then installed a new 1TB drive in the spare drive bay, mounted it in windows & formatted it - no problems.

Then I used Acronis TrueImage 2013 to clone data from an external 1TB drive onto the new internal one (Disk 3,2 respectively). I went into the TrueImage 2013 UI, navigated to the "Disk Clone" feature, followed the straightforward instructions (selecting source & destination disks), kicked it off and waited a couple of hours for it to clone. Unfortunately the power went (laptop AC cable not plugged in)... and when I powered back up, the main C:\ drive seemed to have been affected - "No operating system found". I made sure it was trying to boot from the internal SSD drive in the BIOS, and tried again with no success.

So... I repeated the whole procedure - re-cloned my C:\ drive to the SSD, got the machine up & running again on the SSD, and went through the Acronis TrueImage 2013 UI again to close the 1TB data disk from external disk.... this time with the power cable plugged in. It ran for hours (left overnight), and in the morning I found a black screen with the message "BOOTMGR is missing" Press CTRL+ALT_DEL to restart. Each time I restart, I get the same message.

What's likely to be going on here - why is the Acronis TrueImage 2013 disk clone process affecting
the main c:\ drive MBR ?

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During bootup, have you interrupted the boot and gone into the bios and specifically chosen the Crucial as the disk which is to boot.

If that does not succeed, another option to try is the normal recommended procedure.
Relocate the source disk into an external enclosure or another empty bay.
Install the Crucial in the same spot and same connector as the original disk.
Redo the clone when booted from the TI Recovery CD.

On first bootup, be sure and interrupt the bootup and force the bios to choose the correct boot disk.

The clone procedure is not the safest procedure to accomplish the transfer of your system to a new disk. The Backup and restore procedure will accomplish the same goal and the source disk is not at risk (as it is not acttached during the recovery) as the restore is from a storage disk containing the backup file.

Please heed Grover's warning about Clone. Backup and Restore is safer and more flexible than Clone. I always prefer that user do Backup and Restore is rather than Clone.

Many thanks for the responses folks.
(1) I will definitely heed the warning about clone... I'm already convinced !
(2) @GroverH... yes, I have tried interrupting the boot sequence and via BIOS setting forcing it to use the Crucial to boot from. It's in the original boot disks place in the machine, and is a direct clone of the original boot disk (albeit slightly smaller). It worked before I started cloning the (other) disk intended for data from the external drive.

(3) @GroverH - I will try the procedure you mention
".....If that does not succeed, another option to try is the normal recommended procedure.
Relocate the source disk into an external enclosure or another empty bay.
Install the Crucial in the same spot and same connector as the original disk.
Redo the clone when booted from the TI Recovery CD....."

I can't fully reconcile this with my scenario (my Crucial *is* in the slot that the original boot disk occupied, and the source disk for the clone *is* in an external bay (a usb disk). The Clone in my case is purely from one (external) data disk to one (internal) data disk, and the internal data disk is in the optical disk drive bay in the laptop - was never used to boot from. However, I'll look into the TI Recovery CD (dont know what it is at the moment !).

many thanks,
Aidan.