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Trying to clone. Nothing starting after reboot.

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Hello, please help me.

I don't know why but when the cloning is starting I get a popup telling me that if I don't reboot now it will cancel the operation.
So obviously I click yes and my PC reboots. The reboot is completely normal... windows is opening and ... that's all. I'm on the desktop and nothing happens ever. I can start again the cloning if I reopen the program and do everything again.

It's always asking for a reboot and NOTHING happens after it.

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Florian, welcome to these User Forums.

Please read forum topic: [IMPORTANT] CLONING - How NOT to do this which was written for users like yourself coming to these forums after doing cloning from within Windows.

If you still need further help after looking at the above topic, then please give the version & build of Acronis True Image that you are using (found on the Account page in the ATI GUI), what version of Windows OS you have, what disk drives are involved, how these are connected, etc.

This is completely stupid. Why allow AND ENCOURAGE to do it like this if it's dangerous and not working at all?

There is a step by step cloning guide given with the Kingston SSD I just bought (including this software) and it's telling me to do it like this.

Mind blowing amount of incompetence from both sides. That's a good thing that windows didn't want to start this virus after the reboot because I really don't have time to mess with BCD and fix my own pc after a day of work fixing machines.

WHY AREN'T THEY REMOVING THE OPTION FDKJSQGHDFSJQGOFDJ
Screw this I'm doing a fresh install of windows.

Florian, sorry but the product you received free with your Kingston SSD is an OEM version of the main, commercial Acronis True Image product, and as such, is not supported directly by Acronis.

See KB 2201: Support for OEM Versions of Acronis Products which gives the official Acronis statement on OEM products.  

Cloning can be safe to do with sensible precautions but unfortunately many users blindly follow a set of simple instructions and get it badly wrong, hence why the earlier forum topic was written - partly in frustration for those users who lost all their vital data when cloning went wrong!

Florian RICHAR - you've likely long moved on for this but if someone else find this like I did and did not find Steve Smith's posts helpful, the solution for me was to simply go into the BIOS, disable secure boot, enable CSM (compatibility mode so the cloning files are found upon reboot) and then it works. After cloning, just reverse the steps.