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Making Cloning reboot from original source disk

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I regularly Clone my SSD boot drive to a disk drive in my computer as a safety measure. After cloning, I want to always reboot to the source drive. However, I note that what happens after cloning is a reboot to the cloned drive, not the source drive. Must I go into BIOS every time to reset the boot drive to my original source drive? Is there a way to ensure that reboot goes to the source drive without the need to reset boot order in the BIOS every time?

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William, sorry but as far as I understand this is normal behaviour as cloning is not really intended to be used as other than a one-off action each time, hence it cannot be scheduled etc.

It is also not recommended to boot a system with two identical drives installed, i.e. the source and target from a clone operation, as these disks will both share the same unique drive ID, which can cause Windows to be confused or can even cause corruption.

I agree with Steve here.  You are at high risk of disk/data corruption of one or both disks by your practice.  I get the convenience you are looking for but when working at what is called low levels on disks unexpected results can and do happen.  Corruption of disks due to improper procedure of using the clone tool is a well documented occurrence.  Do so at your own risk!