THe resulting "cloned" disc is invalid; Windows will not boot properly
1) I am running Acronis True Home 2017 from a DVD; ie not inside Windows.
2) The source drive is a Sandisk 500GB Solidstate drive running a perfectly running good version of Win 10 (64 bit ) which is my C drive that boots Windows.
3) The Destination drive is a formatted Western Digital 500GB hard drive which is my D drive.
4) I ran a Clone operation from the DVD; from C to D. It took about 45 minutes and says Completed Successfully at the end.
5) I ran the clone in the "As Is" mode.
6) After all of that, I changed the boot drive priority in the BIOS and restarted the PC. It gets into Windows with the small blue 4 segment graphic with the spinning dots and remains there forever. Clearly that Windows image is bad.
I tried all of the above twice carefully.
What am I doing wrong? Thanks.


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Ian,
If I DO leave the original / source disk in place , what goes wrong??
Thanks
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Jim Calvert wrote:If I DO leave the original / source disk in place , what goes wrong??
Hi! Having two drives with the same Disk Dignature can confuse Windows, here our MVP Steve Smith posted a good explanation of why it happens https://forum.acronis.com/comment/428574#comment-428574
[Moved the thread to Acronis True Image 2017 forum]
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I did physically detach the C drive and the D drive did in fact boot. But it took 20 minutes of furious disk activity to do so.
Thanks everyone for your help.
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Very odd, but at least you are now up and running.
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I wonder if universal restore was applied after the clone - this was uncovered recently in 2018 and 2019 if the clone process detected the new drive to be on a different storage controller. That would explain Windows loading new drivers at startup which could have delayed the boot.
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