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Acronis - Transferring from SSD with windows, HDD with everything else to a SSD - messed up and can't make rescue bootable media

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I have been working on this all weekend and only after making the clone disk and then deleting the original information from the SSD and HDD did I realize, after being unable to boot from my new SSD that I should have gone online to look up a step-by-step guide. I guess I just thought the program would tell me I need to do each step before moving to another step. But no, I did not. So, I thought it would be an easy thing to do. Just transferring information over and moving on. Once I removed the old SSd and HDD, couldn't boot up, because I kept getting an error message that said MBR error 1. Press any key to floppy. So, I found an old SSD that I used to have Windows on and put it in the computer so I could boot it up to go back into Acronis, hoping I could find the issue. Then, I made a cloned Windows to save on a USB, so i could try to put it on my SSD. It didn't work. It says Can't find or add new partitian - to add windows. So I'm stuck. So, now, after lots of researching I wish I had made a rescue disk to boot from. So, I tried it and now it says it can't create a bootable rescue media. I am quite stressed and I realize I didn't do things in the right order, but I have no idea how to fix it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

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Devun, welcome to these public User Forums.

Sorry but unless you have a recent good full disk backup image of your computer from when all was working correctly, then you are looking at having to reinstall Windows and all your applications etc.

Please see forum topic: [IMPORTANT] CLONING - How NOT to do this - which was written after dealing with many cloning issues in the forums.

For Acronis rescue media, then you can try downloading an ISO (CD/DVD) image of this from your Acronis Account web page, assuming that you have registered your Acronis product license to your account.  The ISO image is of the Linux based rescue media and will need to be either burnt to optical media or else converted to be used with USB media using a third-party program such as Rufus.

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"or Acronis rescue media, then you can try downloading an ISO (CD/DVD) image of this from your Acronis Account web page, assuming that you have registered your Acronis product license to your account.  The ISO image is of the Linux based rescue media and will need to be either burnt to optical media or else converted to be used with USB media using a third-party program such as Rufus".

 

 

so what are you saying you can't create a Bootable Media on a USB Drive because guess what newer Laptops don't have a Optical drives anymore.   I've been trying to create a bootable media for the last 2 hours and I keep getting can't create a bootable disk on the USB Drive.     I'm communicating with Acronis Tech Support and I'm coming to the conclusion this just it's worth my time this program has done nothing BUT CRASHED on everything.    I'm giving Acronis a year and I told them I would work with them on these issues they sent me a long list of things to do.  I'm trying but so far gotten nowhere with any of it.  I gave up on Cloning drive because Acronis has made it to complicated you have everybody jump through to many hoops to clone now at least for a Laptop when I can use Macrium and have the Cloned disk done in and hour on my Laptop no jumping through hoops or making bootable media and no fuss     Acronis use to be that way WHAT HAPPENED? 

so what are you saying you can't create a Bootable Media on a USB Drive because guess what newer Laptops don't have a Optical drives anymore. 

No, I am not saying that!  If you have Acronis installed then you can create any of the options for types of rescue media, including using USB if you prefer that medium.

If you are having a specific issue with creating USB rescue media, then please give us more details of exactly that issue is, what options you are choosing, what size / type of USB media etc?

The Acronis rescue media builder also produces a log file for each time it is used, so that too should provide some clues as to what is happening if it is not successful.

You can use the MVP Assistant tool to find the Media Builder log and have it formatted to be easier to read.

MVP Assistant - New 2.0 with Rescue Media Builder (New Version 2.3.2) BETA Version 2.4.0.1 available, see posting below.

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Hello Devun.

Thank you for the post. I am sorry you experienced issues with the recovery.

I see there was a ticket open by yourself with our support.

The same ticket was closed by 3 strike because we didn't received any response from your side.

Could you please tell me your feedback? Was the issue resolved? If you have any comments feel free to reply so I can take further measures.

Thanks in advance.