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Acronis 2021 Disc clone

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Hello all. First off, please excuse my ignorance as I'm a bit out of my element. 

I have an ASUS q551l that I'm attempting to upgrade to a Crucial SSD. I've tried the clone tool with the original HHD in and SSD on USB and it just hangs up forever. I've tried swapping those and no matter what I do in the bootloader, it won't boot from the HDD via USB. I tried to create an Aconis boot image on a 32g thumb drive and I get the errors pictured in the attachment. The SSD is initiated. This has been an all day affair and I'm about at my wit's end here. Any help would be appreciated. 

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Alexander, welcome to these public User Forums.

See the following reference documents and action them.

  1. Create the 'Simple' version of Acronis Rescue Media (WinPE) using the tools provided in ATI 2021 in Windows.

    KB 65508: Acronis True Image 2021: how to create bootable media
     

  2. Next, make a full disk backup of the working PC to an external storage drive.   

    KB 65520: Acronis True Image 2021: how to back up files or disks
    KB 65468: Acronis True Image 2021: how to back up entire computer

    Note:  this can also be done from within Windows using ATI 2021.
     

  3. Now, confirm how your ASUS PC boots into Windows from the BIOS - I would expect this to be using UEFI BIOS boot mode but you need to check this.  This is important because you will need to boot the PC from the Acronis Rescue Media using the same boot mode!

    Note: you can run the command: msinfo32 from within Windows then look for BIOS mode in the right side panel that is shown.

    KB 59877: Acronis True Image: how to distinguish between UEFI and Legacy BIOS boot modes of Acronis Bootable Media
     

  4. Now you need to check that you are able to boot the PC from the Rescue Media using that correct BIOS mode before anything else.
     
  5. If booting from the rescue media is successful, then the correct method of cloning is as documented below:

    KB 56634: Acronis True Image: how to clone a disk - review the step by step guide given there. 

    Note: the first section of the above KB document directs laptop users to KB 2931: How to clone a laptop hard drive - and has the following paragraph:

    "It is recommended to put the new drive in the laptop first, and connect the old drive via USB. Otherwise you will may not be able to boot from the new cloned drive, as Acronis True Image will apply a bootability fix to the new disk and adjust the boot settings of the target drive to boot from USB. If the new disk is inside the laptop, the boot settings will be automatically adjusted to boot from internal disk. As such, hard disk bays cannot be used for target disks. For example, if you have a target hard disk (i.e. the new disk to which you clone, and from which you intend to boot the machine) in a bay, and not physically inside the laptop, the target hard disk will be unbootable after the cloning."

    As per the above, you need to remove the HDD from the PC, install the SSD in its place, then boot the PC from the rescue media to perform the clone operation.

    Note: you can achieve the same end result by forgetting about using cloning and use the full disk backup image created in step 2.
     

  6. KB 65539: Acronis True Image 2021: How to restore your computer with WinPE-based or WinRE-based media 

    This method is safer because you can remove the original working HDD, set it aside away from any interaction, accidents etc, and restore the backup created earlier direct from the external storage drive to the new SSD installed in the PC.