Can't boot WIndows after cloning NVMe
I have a PC which has a 500Gb NVMe SSD for drive C: and as this was starting to get very full, bought a Samsung 980 pro 2Tb to replace it. I have Acronis Disk Director 12 so I went to clone the drive.
1) I put the 2Tb drive in a NVMe case and plugged it into a USBC port.
2) Used Disk management to recognise the drive
3) Ran Disk Director and selected clone C: (existing NVMe) to I: (the new NVMe). Uses resize partitions and copy NT signature, using MBR option not GPT.
4) This ran to completion, when it had finished and shut down the machine I swapped the 2Tb for the existing 500Gb NVMe.
Alas it wouldn't boot the OS, had a MBT error 1.
I tried replacing the NVMe 2Tb with the old 500Gb, same error. Looks like both are somehow corrupted?
5) I ran a Windows10 CD and in a cmd window tried bootrec /fixmbr - that did not solve the problem.
So I'm a bit lost as to what to try to either fix the new drive or repair the old one, anyone help?

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Yes I tried the bootrec /fixmbr etc. on both the new and the original disks. The command completed but it did not fix the problem in either case.
In the end I just installed Windows on the new disk from scratch, then installed all the software I had on the old one (Visual Studio, VMWare, Qt, Office, hours of work...). Fortunately all my user data was backed up.
What I find inexcusable is that Acronis destroyed the disk I was copying *from*... I don't think I'll be using it again!!!
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Thanks for the feedback.
Could you please please confirm to me you did all the recommended steps while cloning? ( pre-requisites included ).
https://kb.acronis.com/content/47030
Please note that:
With the Copy NT signature option enabled, you will have the signature from the source disk copied to the target disk.
With this option enabled, you will need to unplug one of the disks from the machine after cloning and before the first startup, otherwise the target disk will be unbootable. You cannot have two disks with the same NT signature on one machine.
Thanks in advance!
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Yes, I read the instructions carefully, and as I was copying the NT signature as soon as cloning was complete and the machine shut down I unplugged the target disk. And when I then powered up the machine I got the MBR error 1.
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Keith Sabine wrote:Yes, I read the instructions carefully, and as I was copying the NT signature as soon as cloning was complete and the machine shut down I unplugged the target disk. And when I then powered up the machine I got the MBR error 1.
I would suggest you to raise a ticket with our support, because if all the steps were followed it should work as expected https://kb.acronis.com/content/8153.
Thanks.
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