Can't boot from SSD after backup, attempting to redo clone fails inexplicably.
Hello everyone.
Yesterday a nice shiny new Crucial 1TB M.2 SSD manifested in my life together with a code for Acronis True Image HD 2015. I previously was using a 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black hard drive that is coming to the end of its life. I plugged in the new SSD into my M.2 slot and installed Acronis. It was recognised in the BIOS and in the Windows 10 disk manager, so I cloned my C: drive to it. After doing the whole restart and Acronis Loader business I tried to boot from it but got the flickering login screen that wouldn't let me do anything.
I was told that this was caused by having two boot drives connected at once so I unplugged my old hard disk and set it in the BIOS to boot from the SSD. Result - Windows doesn't load properly and gets stuck on the spinny circle thing. On a subsequent attempt it says it "cannot find BOOTMGR."
I attempted to redo the clone image using Acronis, this fails completely; it restarts to commence the clone then after 30 seconds of "preparing" inexplicably restarts and goes into Windows (booting from the old hard drive.)
Completely losing all faith. Feel like I've been sold a bill of goods. Someone tell me how to fix this without the misery of going through a Windows reinstallation (which isn't likely since I've lost my Windows 7 disk.)
I tried to download EaseUS to see if different software would work but EaseUS free edition is horrible crippleware.


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