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unable to boot from a cloned drive

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I made a cloned drive using acronis. I changed the boot order to boot off my USB drive first. However, when I restart the computer it says "preparing automatic repair" - but that did not boot off the USB drive.

Next I tried to use windows off a different drive "Volume 3" but again that did not work

How can I get the system to boot off a USB cloned drive?

Thanks

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Chris, sorry but you are seeing a restriction imposed by Microsoft to not allow Windows to boot from any external drive unless it has been prepared using their 'Windows to go' process or the equivalent.

Cloned drives created by Acronis and other applications are intended to be used to replace an internal drive in the same PC.

Thanks Steve - unfortunately I cannot swap the USB drive in place of my internal Laptop drive - Is there any work around to make this bootable ?