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2017 Kernal Panic BLACK SCREEN Lockup on load up of first clone attempt

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New installation of 2017 on Win 7 Pro first clone attampt. Computer went into a black screen with the message:

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Kernal Panic - Not Syncing : UFS unable to mount root fs on unknown - Block (1.0)

CPU : 1 Pid : 1 Comm : swapper/) not tainted 4.4.6 - acronis-D437-x86_64 #1

Machine was frozen and I had to co back to an earlier set point and reinstall True Image. I can back up to an external drive but I can't clone. Need assistance. As you can see from my ID I am a beginner and this is greek to me. Please Help

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Hi Dennis, did you start the clone from within Windows?  If so, I suspect that to be the issue.  Basically, it will require a reboot and then replace the Windows bootloader with Acronis Linux recovery.  If the bios is set with secure boot or a configuration that prevents Linux from loading it will fail.

I would recommend that you create Recover media to a USB flash drive and verify that you can boot into it and then attempt the clone that way as it is safer (for not replacing the Windows bootloader) and will confirm 1) that your system can boot from it or not and 2) if it does boot, if it can see your internal hard drive or not while in the Linux media.

If all is well with booting and finding your internal hard drive I would highly taking a full disk backup image and saving it to another locatio as a a safety net (Acronis clone instructions advise doing the same as well).  That way, if the clone goes bad or you clone the blank drive to the original drive you don't end up in bad shape as you could still recover from your backup image.

That said, once you're ready to clone:

1) POwer off the computer.  

2) Remove the original drive and replace with your new disk drive.  

3) Put the original drive in an external USB caddy or case.

4) boot your recovery media and clone from the extertnal to the new drive.

5) Once the clone is complete, unplug the external (original drive).

6) remove your Acronis media and reboot the PC and see if the clone boots up or not.

Please also see this thread:  https://forum.acronis.com/forum/125166#comment-387534

And here is Acronis clone instructions video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlXkYKzY6vs