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New drive not found after cloning non-boot D drive in Windows 10

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My Windows 10 desktop had three drives, a boot C-drive (an SSD), a programs hard-drive (D) and and data files hard drive (E).

I recently upgraded the 240 GB SSD C-drive to a 500 GB Samsung SSD using Acronis 2019 w/o any issue. Then I used Acronis to clone the existing D-drive to the old 240 GB SSD drive that had been retired from C-drive duty. There is still 75 GB of free space on the new D-drive.

Then I removed the old D-drive and put the new D-drive (SSD) in its place and booted.  Same SATA connectors. The system boots, but complains that there is no D-drive. Sure enough, none shows up in Windows Explorer. 

I reconnected the old D-drive and disconnected the SSD that replaced it and the system boots fine, including D-drive.

What's up? My guess is that I have to reconnect the D-drive SSD and use disk manager to make sure it is listed as the D-drive. But after that, if it does not work...

 

Or suggestions....?

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Sounds like when you did the clone you did so while booted in Windows from within the True Image app.

If you did then the drive letter D was in use during the clone which I believe would cause the new disk to get a new letter.

Have a look at Disk Management and see what letter is assigned to the new drive.  If it is something other than D and D is available you can assign that letter to the new drive and resolve the issue.