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It changed my boot drive during cloning!!

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Hello,

Im using ATI 2013 full version. I had 3 drives on my Win8 PC: C 3(TB), D(2TB) and e(2TB).

I have 1.6 TB of data on my hard drive (C) and want to clone that data so I have 2 bottable backups (D and E).

I went through the cloning process to clone my old main C drive to the D drive and upon completion, my smaller 2 TB D drive that I did the clone on to now became the bootable C drive and I don't want that.

I want an EXACT replica of my C drive onto D and E and I want it to remain that way forever. I will always use that 3TB C drive as my main boot drive and the 2TB D and E drives will always be for cloned backups in case my C drive ever fails. My goal is to have 2 exact backup drives I can just boot from and not lose any data whatsoever - an exact clone of my C drive.

How and why did the cloning process change my boot drive to the 2TB D drive and how do I get it back to where I can boot from my (old) C drive 3TB?

Please help. This has me going nuts trying to figure this out.

Thanks.

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The cause was your having two identical disks on first boot following the cloning and Windows chose the wrong disk. The error could have been avoided by temporarily disconnecting the source disk so Windows had only one choice and then later connecting back the original.

One option mgiht be
I would temporarily disconnect all disk data cables except for the old C so the bios has only the C connected
and then boot from the user created Windows System Recovery CD and do a "Startup repair"
You may have to t he Startup repair more than once for it to complete.