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disk clone will not boot

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I clonded my hard drive on my Alienware to have an backup incase I have an crash but after I cloned the drive I unhooked the original drive and put in the clone and it will not boot. Any ideas?

Alienware area 51
Windows 10 64bit

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It is recommended procedure to clone a laptop using the bootable Recovery Media and that the target drive be attached to the same location as the source drive prior to running the clone operation. Additionally, you should enable the shutdown computer after completion option as you will need to disconnect the source drive from the machine prior to booting to the new target disk.

It is also strongly recommended that a full disk backup be created prior to cloning just in case things go wrong with the clone procedure.