Clone shows successful but newly cloned disk will not boot.
I have tried different drives and PC's. Here's the scenario. A brand new HP desktop with a 500Gb hard drive. I'm starting up Acronis 2015 from a bootable USB stick, new SSD drive is connected USB and I clone using the HDD as the source and the new SSD as the destination. Everything finished without error. After shutting down I remove the SSD from the dock and replace the HDD with it in the PC. Turning the PC back on it skips the SSD drive and tries to boot from Ethernet.
Any help is appreciated :)


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Bobbbo, thanks for your help.
The drive shows up in the BIOS and nothing is changing from the HDD to SSD, same cables, power, etc.
When I connect the cloned drive as a secondary drive on a the original PC everything seems to be in tact. All drives, folders are there.
The SSD drive is new out of the box. When I go through the Clone options it sees the SSD as a new unpartitioned drive and it creates the partitions as part of the Clone process.
One item that might help, I put another USB drive on the PC, booted from the USB stick and created a full backup of the drive (.tib) and then swapped the SSD drive into the PC. I Booted the USB stick and ran a full recovery to the SSD and it worked fine. This makes me believe that there is no harware or BIOS issues, just a Acronis Clone issue - am I wrong?
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Hello Linn,
The destination disk should be connected the same way it is going to be booted later. Both recovery and cloning procedures include "fixing bootability" stage, when Acronis makes sure that the recovered or cloned disk is bootable in its current position in the system. My suggestion to you is when you want to clone disks, connect source disk with USB and put the destination disk into the PC, and then perform cloning.
If you plan to make copies of your main disk frequently, above described procedure with switching disks may not be convenient. In such case you can simply run incremental backups instead of making clones. You would need to put the target disk into the PC only when you would need to perform restoration and not every time disk is copied.
Regards,
Slava
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