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Clone shows successful but newly cloned disk will not boot.

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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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Can you see the HD in the bios system information (not the boot order) along with the memory, cpu, etc?   Just want to make sure the bios can see it as sometimes SATA cables are loose after reconnecting drives.  

Also, can you hook up the drive as an external to another functioning sytem, winpe system, or something to verify the contents on the new clone drive to make sure it has the data on it as expected?

Also, some newer motherboards don't let you just select a SATA drive to boot Windows from.  On mine, I have to specifically have "windows boot manager" listed and at the very top or Windows won't boot.  I can boot other recovery media (flash drives, winpe, etc) using the old pick a drive method, but for Windows, I can only use the "windows boot manager" option. Perhaps your HP has a similar limitation?

Also, it's not clear, but are you taking an image of the original HP drive and cloning that to a new SSD, or attempting to clone some other OS drive and put it in the new HP?  If using another system clone, it may not be compatible with the new hardware and could require Universal Restore to generalize drivers. It could also not be compatible if the old system was a Legacy OS install and the new one is a UEFI install.  It could also be incompatible if the old OS was installed with the bios SATA mode as AHCI but the new one as RAID (or vice-versa).

If this is strictly the original drive being transferred to an SSD, and the clone is showing successful, it should be a lot easier to troubleshoot.

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?

 

 

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