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not booting to ssd after using true image 2015

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Hi All

i am buy no means that tech savvy when it comes to computers but can follow instructions ok. I bought a new ssd and it came with true image 2015, that part was easy, installed the ssd along side existing hard drive, again easy, then ran true image to clone the existing hard drive to the ssd, again easy if not a pretty long process. So i have the drive now showing ok, first tried changing the bios to boot to the new drive ut after a long wait it was just a black screen, changed bios back and boots ok from old drive. Removed old drive and tried again, black screen. So looked on disc management (after plugging in old drive) and the new drive shows different to the old drive the partition labeled ntfs in the old drive shows healthy (boot, page file, crash dump, primary partition) the ssd partition labeled NTFS just shows (Healthy, Primary partition) When viewed it contains all the windows files and folders including boot etc. How do i make it boot to this drive please, i tried good old google but cant seem to find the answers

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Hello Mark,

I am afraid that you have hit one of the known issues with performing a clone operation in that you have cloned to the new SSD drive by installing this into a second location inside your computer - unfortunately this will not boot when attached in this way.

You can try removing the original drive and moving the SSD to attach to the exact same place / cable as the original and see if it will boot then.  You should not have the source and target drives for a clone operation connected at the same time as this will cause problems - a clone is an identical copy of the source drive even including the disk signature and this can cause unpredictable results if both are connected.

See KB document: 56634: Acronis True Image 2016: Cloning Disks which will still apply to ATIH 2015 plus has a video tutorial showing how to do this.

See KB document: 45831: Acronis Software: Unbootable System after Cloning Operation