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I am unable to clone a drive from a ssd that is 60GB to a drive that is 120GB

I booted using the rescue disk and now it says that BootMgr is missing...

After booting from the windows disk and repair disk I ran bootmgr.exe with /FixMbr and /FixBoot option and it says successful but it give the same error next time

I can see the files in the C Drive after rebooting and doing repair disk

When I do bootrec.exe /scanos I find that there are no windows installation.

I used this method previously with acronis 2010 before and it was just fine. I also looked at all the postings on this forum and tried everything. Lots of people have this problem starting from 2010 and still having it.

It looks like the new interface is created to make it look good but makes it very confusing and does not work....I hope I can still return the product.

I have already wasted 3 hours on this trying different options. Can anybody suggest any other clone software that works without being a hacker.

Thanks
SK

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SK,

Instead of cloning, do a backup and restore. Make sure that your backup is including the active partition, and that your mark it active when you restore.

Follow the instructions here. This will make sure your computer can boot and that the new disk alignment is created/preserved.

- Use Windows disk management to verify that the active partition is on the system disk (right click on the computer icon on your desktop, choose manage, storage, disk management)

- Print a screen shot of the disk management console for future reference,

- Uninstall any program you don't want on the SSD (eg: games, ). You can leave content and move it later out of the SSD.

- Do a full backup of your current disk (before changing the partition size). Include all hidden partitions and teh C:\: eg System Reserved, Diagnostics, Recovery, etc.

- No need to use the sector by sector setting

- Put your SSD at the same spot at your current disk. Remove your current disk from the computer for the time being.

- Boot your computer on the Acronis recovery CD

- Restore each partition at a time in the same order they were laid out (use your screen shot). This will allow to control resizing and offset to align the disk

- Leave a 1MB space before the first partition (maybe system reserved?)

- Mark the correct partition active (maybe system reserved?)

- Leave the drive letter change option alone

- Do not resize any partition except the C:\system partition or any partition you created and want on the SSD

- Make sure that each partition has a size that is a whole number of MB (doesn't matter for the last partition)

- No need to reboot inbetween partition restores

- After the last partition, restore the MBR+track0 and the disk signature

That's it.