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Clone's new question and why Clone does not work any more.

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I use the disk clone product more than anything else. It has always worked moving Drives over to SSD and data drives etc. Since the new update there is a disk usage question and I don't know what this is there. But since this update the clone program is not working any more. The machine I am trying to clone now wont boot from the cloned drive. But the original drive it boots from fine. I may have to run a windows 10 restoration just to get this to work and that annoys me why is this question there? Why does it matter.

 

I want to clone the disk I don't want your program to try and work out why I am doing it if I wanted that I would simply copy the data without using Clone. 

I hope this is fixed soon as it is extremely annoying for me. 

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Jarrad, welcome to these public User Forums.

Sorry but more information is needed here if we are to try to understand the issue with cloning and help you?

What version of ATI are you using?  This forum is intended for ATI 2021 where the latest build is #35860.

What type of PC is being used for this cloning scenario?  Desktop / tower PC or a Laptop / notebook ?

Are you cloning a disk from the same PC or a disk from a different PC?

Was the cloned disk installed in place of the original source disk when trying to boot from it?

How are you performing the clone operation?  Is this being done from the Windows ATI application (using Acronis Active Clone) or are you booting the PC from the Acronis Rescue Media to do the cloning?

Note: this is a user forum and the users & MVP's don't work for Acronis, so if you believe you have found a code issue / defect / bug etc, you need to raise this directly with Acronis Support and work with them to investigate the issue.

Yes that is the year and Build. I have had it installed on my main machine for 8 years now and the main function I use it for it to clone hard drives. I have a customer who has a Samsung 250GB SSD and I was moving the C drive to another 250GB Samsung but a newer version of the drive. The only change I have found in the program is suddenly I have this question while using the Clone Function.

I plug both drives into my machine SATA Cables that are on my desk this is how often I use this feature. I use it to move mechanical hard drives to SSD's in laptops and PCs without reinstalling operating systems and keeping everything intact. 

You want to know what the specs are on my machine? Or the machine I am installing the new drive into. When I did the clone 3 years ago on this same machine worked first time no problems. This time 6 attempts and no joy at all anyhow my main issue is why is it asking me this question now? 

Anyhow I am not sure if Acronis is not working or its the PC has an issue. I will try and do another machine soon as I get this all the time. I was just wondering if others had the same issues and also why the question was added as it seems like the most pointless question. I want to clone the drive so I want the program to make Drive A into another drive A if the drive is bootable before it needs to be bootable after! anyhow thanks for your responce. 

Jarrad, thanks for clarifying how you are doing the cloning here which helps explain why you might be seeing issues!

Acronis default to following the BIOS boot mode and associated partition scheme for the host PC where the clone is being performed and replicating this for the target disk drive.

What this means in practice is that if your host PC is using Legacy / MBR boot, the target disk will be cloned to use the same.

If your host PC is using UEFI / GPT boot, ditto for the target disk drive!

This is fine for the majority of users who only ever clone disks from their single host PC but is an issue for users like yourself doing cloning on one PC using disks from a different PC!

The only current method of circumventing this behaviour is to boot the host PC using the Acronis Rescue Media using the desired target PC BIOS boot mode (Legacy or UEFI) so that the target drive will be cloned correctly.  The alternative is to use a different clone application which doesn't impose this limitation in behaviour!

Please submit Feedback to Acronis to register your vote for existing feature request TI-179333 Allow selecting the boot mode (BIOS or UEFI) after recovery/cloning.

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Hello Everyone,

added this topic as a vote for the feature request TI-179333 Allow selecting the boot mode (BIOS or UEFI) after recovery/cloning, thank you!