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Cloning windows 10

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Hi All,

Anybody having problems cloning windows 10.  I've cloned many drives with Acronis but this is the first time for windows 10.  Everything went like it should but now trying to boot from new ssd drive it gets stuck in the win10 repair loop at startup. Can any body help?

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Welcome to these user forums.

I am sure that lots of users have successfully cloned Windows 10 systems and have seen reports of the same in the forum, though I have not had a need to do so myself.

How are you doing the clone?

Please see KB document: 56634: Acronis True Image: Cloning Disks and follow the guide there for cloning your source hard drive - the key points in doing this are as follows:

  1. Do not attempt to clone from within Windows!  Always use the Acronis bootable Rescue Media to do this.  This can be created on DVD or USB stick, plus can be made either with the standard, linux based OS media, or with Windows PE media.  Using a USB stick is the recommended method but do not use a USB stick larger than 32GB in size - an old 1GB stick will do fine!
  2. Remove the source drive from your computer and replace it with the new target drive that you want to clone to.
  3. Connect the removed source drive via USB or in a second drive position.
  4. Boot the Rescue Media in the same mode as your Windows OS boots, i.e. if Windows boots in UEFI mode then the Rescue media must be booted the same, other if Legacy then that mode.  See webpage: Check if your PC uses UEFI or BIOS to check which way your OS boots.  
  5. Once the Rescue Media has booted, check that you can see both your source (now second/external drive) and your target (now internal drive) and Acronis will allow you to select these.  If all is OK, then go ahead and perform the clone operation.

Note: I would recommend making a full disk backup of your source disk drive to an external backup drive before embarking on the above, to give you a recovery option if anything goes wrong, i.e. incorrect drive selection! 

Hey Steve,  Thanks for the reply i'm doing everything that you said. I have a bios computer does this mean the cd boots in bios if not where do I find info on this?  How do I find out how windows10 boots?

All computers have a bios.  How that bios is used to boot the computer is the question.

Please review the links supplied by Steve and you should be able to answer your questions.  If you still have questins after that then post back.

Hi There, it's a Bois computer. everything boots in bios.

What type of drive are you cloning from, is this from a HDD drive or from another SSD drive?

Does the original drive still boot correctly if reinstalled in the computer?

Is the new SSD drive connected to the same SATA port / connector as the original drive you removed?

See this link to determine how your machine is booted.

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/check-if-uefi-or-bios

These are the current boot methods available on todays computers.  Both use a cumputers bios what we need to determine is what method is used.

Hi all,  Here are the steps I have taken. New Evo 500gb ssd initialized and formatted with the computer it's going in "Toshiba C650 Windows 10 upgraded from 7. It is a bios computer both computer and windows10. 

1. Acronis true image 2017 boot media on disk and usb pin drive.

2. Put new ssd in computer where old one was and old hhd in external enclosure.

3. Turn on computer and boot from cd 

4. Run acronis clone " have program turn off computer when done".

5. Unhook old hdd drive and reboot from new ssd.

6. Win. will not boot get stuck in win 10 repair startup loop.

I can put old drive back in and everything works fine.

Help what am I over looking. This never happened when working on all the win7 computers I have done.

 

 

 

 

Try this first, boot to the startup repair screen.  Select Advanced Options.  Select Startup Settings. Select option 4, Enable Safe Mode. Click on Restart.

If computer successfully boots to Safe Mode then click on left click on the Windows Start icon and select Restart.

Hi all,

Just for the heck of it I tried a different exturnal drive and it worked.  Cloning went just like it should of the first three times the new ssd drive working great and fast. Thanks for all the help!!!!!

Thanks for the feedback, glad to hear the clone is now working.  When you say you tried a different external drive and it worked, did you mean a different external disk enclosure rather than different source drive?

Just a different enclosure. 

Peter, welcome to these User Forums.

The 2TB limit is a factor of older MBR partitioning using NTFS with a cluster size of 512bytes, so this can be overcome by using UEFI and GPT partitioning.

Perhaps the real question is how will the drive be used, will this be a boot disk or a data disk, as this may be an issue depending on your BIOS and OS.

I would recommend creating a full Disk & Partitions backup of any drive you are intending to clone, so that you have a means of recovering should any issues arise.  A Backup image can also be used to Recover to a larger drive size without the need to using cloning.