How to clone dual boot system

This is most likely a simple fix but again, it may not.

Have you entered the BIOS and updated the HD boot order ?

I have done this many times and many times I've forgotten to do this.

Again this could be as simple as this but without more information, we can only assume that this is the problem.

Physically switched the drives after cloning, so no change to boot sequence.
It is the cloned drive that says "MBR missing" and wont boot.
Switched back and the original HD boots fine.

Hello all!

First of all, Walter, thank you for your comment!

Unfortunately as Walter mentioned we cannot identify the reason of the issue due to the lack of information, so let's first of all ix it. Atarul, thank you for reporting about the problem!

We can repair MBR without reinstalling the system, please kindly see these instructions and try it. I would appreciate if you could kindly let me know whether everything went fine and you can boot from the HDD you have cloned! Should the issue persist - just let me know, I will be glad to help you!

In case you would like to investigate the issue, please kindly provide us with the following information: 

1. Could you please provide us with the exact sequence of actions that lead to the problem you report, so that we can reproduce it?
2. Please gather the Acronis Report from the source and the target drives.
3. Also please gather Acronis info from the source drive: 
   - Download AcronisInfo
   - Run the downloaded file.

   The gathered information will be put in AcronisInfo.zip in the same folder, where the AcronisInfo was saved.

   This information will allow us to take a closer look at the Acronis product state and logs.

and contact us with the information gathered.

Thank you in advance for cooperatrion!

Installed True Image Home 2010 onto a 160 Gb SATA HD on a Dell desktop PC and began saving backups to an external drive. Decided to install a 600 Gb SATA HD in port 0 of the motherboard and moved the 160 SATA to the second mother board position. Used the CLONE function to transfer the image from this (originally the boot HD) onto the new 600 Gb SATA. Clone worked and could boot from the new HD.

Potential problem was that the old SATA was the original boot HD, so now there were two SATA boot drives. Decided to wipe the old boot drive. Tried to reboot from the new drive after the wipe and after the XP splash screen appears, the Windows Startup screen is the end of the boot cycle, ie. the login screen does not show. Was the new drive using some of the OS from the older SATA drive? How to get the new SATA to boot as the primary drive?

Hi there.,,

i have done this many times..

most of the time you have to just restore the mbr back from the backup image to the new disk en restart the system.

if not: check if the boot disk/partition is set as active.
you can check this by use acronis disk directory or the option before restore the backup image "set partition active"

We did restore the MBR back from the backup image and also did "set partition active". The new drive boots to the XP splash screen and then defaults to a Windows in Opening screen and stops dead at that screen.

Our problem is that we did not disconnect the old boot drive before booting from the new drive. At that point, we initiated Acronis Recovery Manager, changed the MBR to show the F11 Recovery option, setup the Secure Zone and began saving backups in the Zone on the new drive. After a week of successfully using the new drive, I decided to format the old drive and free-up that drive for new storage. Once that old drive was cleaned of its MBR and OS, the new drive failed to boot beyond the Windows is Opening screen.

We have an image of the old drive, stored externally and plan to restore the old drive with this image. If the new drive then boots correctly, we plan to save the necessary personal files from the new drive and then clone that drive from the old drive. Before we reboot, we will turn off the CPU, disconnect the old drive, and then reboot. Windows will then look for C: and assign C: to the new drive, hopefully.