Cloning windows 10
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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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?
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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.
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Hi There, it's a Bois computer. everything boots in bios.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!!!!!
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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?
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Just a different enclosure.
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Hi...does anyone know whether Acronis 2018 can allow cloning to a drive bigger than 2Tb?????
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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.
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