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Trying to clone my hard drive I go through everything like I supposed to and when it wants me to reboot the computer and when it does reboot it just boots up normally I wait for something to happen but nothing happens what is going on 

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Never start cloning operations from within Windows. I know... I know... It is supposed to work. And it does very often... But it opens the door to many problems.

Create your Acronis rescue media, boot your computer on it. Perform the clone from there.

 

Remember: DO NOT reboot the computer with both the original disk and the new clone in the system.

Ditto to Pat.  The reason it is probalby not working is a bios limitation (secure boot, or something like that).  However, I also don't recommend starting the clone from within Acronis as it can corrupt your Windows bootloader which is a risk I feel is not woth taking when you can just as easily start the clone with bootable media and avoid that possibility altogether.