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Unable to start Windows after Cloning

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Please assist? I cloned my disk using the Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office trial. I saved my cloned disk on an external had drive and copied from the hard drive to my new hdd disk. I am stuck at the Acronis page.I get a no source error, when the external drive is not connected.

 

I get the no Bootable drive error, when the external drive is not connected.

 

 

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A a, welcome to these public User Forums.

Please see the document link in my signature that describes the difference between Backup and Cloning.  I ask this because your statement above doesn't make sense for cloning?

I saved my cloned disk on an external had drive and copied from the hard drive to my new hdd disk. I am stuck at the Acronis page.I get a no source error, when the external drive is not connected.

When you create a clone of a disk, you are making a duplicate copy of the source disk on to a target disk.  There is no saving of any data, the target disk is wiped out and the contents replaced by the contents (partitions, programs, files, data) from the source disk.

Your images also show you are working with a laptop for which there are other considerations!

Please see KB 56634: Acronis True Image: how to clone a disk - and 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.

The next point of concern is whether your original OS disk drive in the laptop remains unchanged and operational?

Have you removed that original disk drive?  The purpose of cloning is to create a duplicate of the source disk, remove that source disk and replace it by the cloned disk, then boot the laptop with only the cloned disk in place.

If the original disk drive was removed, then put it back again and check whether the laptop will boot normally into Windows?