Cloning a system drive
Hi everyone,
I need help with cloning a system drive.
Initially I have had a 1 TB platter drive in my laptop. It was upgraded to a half size SSD and all worked well. Platter drive I used as secondary drive in my desktop system. Until the day when I accidentally overwritten a system partition on my laptop's SSD.
I have tried cloning system partitions off the 1GB platter drive using Acronis Drive Clone utility, that is in my desktop at the moment, excluding contents of data partition, due to the size. However, after I place SSD back into the laptop and attempt to perform a recover of system partition I get an error. In Diskmgmt disks look identical, however some detail is missing.
Any suggestions, what may be causing it?
I am including links to two screenshots. One is error I get when I press key combination for factory restore on the laptop. Another is diskmgmt and 2 drives, where I've cloned partitions from top to bottom in the list.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.
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This error you see on the blue screen is common when you have not disconnected the source drive from the computer after running the clone tool and attempting to boot the machine with both the source and target disks both attached.
When you do that it confuses Windows as Windows cannot find the correct boot device, thus the error.
Disconnect the source drive, then boot into the machine bios, advanced settings settings, boot section, boot order. Make sure that boot order list shows that Windows Boot Manager is first in the list then, save and exit the bios. The machine should boot fine.
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Thank you for suggestions.
IanL-S: The reason I am persevering with cloning the drive is because I do not have a recovery media for the laptop. If I install brand new version of Windows, I will have to pay for licence.
Enchantech: After I clone the on my desktop, I insert the drive into the laptop and attempt recovery.
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Roman,
Two things here, you have the ability to create Recovery Media for your use by using the Recovery Media Creation tool provided with the True Image application.
There is no recovery process associated with the Clone process. The clone tool creates a bit for bit copy of data, partition information, and file system to another disk. Once the clone process completes the new disk created must be detached from the computer and then installed in place of the original disk prior to any attempt to boot the computer again.
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