Trying to restore a full backup to an ssd ... the original was on an hdd
WIndows 10. Acronis True Image 2018. Want to replace a 1000 GB HDD with a 500 GB SSD. No change in hardware other than that. As far as I know, I followed the instructions carefully - referring to them on my laptop step by step. I used the Rescue Media - checked that it could see both the new drive and the source of the backup file on a WD My Cloud acting as a NAS. You don't change the BIOS to boot from the CD/DVD any more, because it's UEFI ... so you override the boot order. That was fine. Acronis True Image comes on the screen after a little command window shows it starting.
The only difference I noticed between the instructions and what I saw was that in the restore process, there were several steps, whereas the instructions seemed to only have one. I can repeat the whole thing and make notes and post them.
Should I reformat the SSD before I do this? There was stuff on the disk, because I had tried a clone with ATI 2017, only to discover that a USB-clone (which it was) was said to not be bootable. Thinking that was solved with ATI 2018, I purchased that, but no luck.
Any advice would be appreciated.


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