Starting Acronis Loader problem
I'm cloning a Windows 7 machine. The target drive is connected via USB. Both target and source are 1T SSD's. The target is a clone of my Windows 10 machine which I wish to now use as a clone for the Windows 7 computer. When Acronis 2018 prompts me to restart, I accept. When the machine begins booting there is the message Starting Acronis Loader, which then stalls and remains on the screen. I need to know what to do in order to get past this and clone the disk. Does anyone have an answer? Thanks.


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Thank you.
I hope you can answer a quick question without starting a new post.
So the disk I cloned from Windows on my desktop (with the target on usb), which went seamlessly, will function as a bootable disk?
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Gregg Kuljian wrote:Thank you.
I hope you can answer a quick question without starting a new post.
So the disk I cloned from Windows on my desktop (with the target on usb), which went seamlessly, will function as a bootable disk?
It will only be bootable if it is installed into your desktop and replaces the current (source) OS disk. Microsoft do not support booting Windows from an external USB drive unless using their special Windows 2 Go method of creating the USB drive.
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Oh, thank you, I actually meant exactly as you described. So I can install the disk, and then expect it to be bootable.
I had forgotten that laptop cloning is different from desktop cloning. It has been several years since I did this.
Well again, I am most grateful for your replies.
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I have a question after reading this from the instructions- Acronis True Image will apply a bootability fix to the new disk and adjust the boot settings of the target drive to boot from USB.
My goal is to clone my existing drive to the new drive, and have both disks bootable. Is this possible? It sounds like after the source drive is connected externally via USB, it is altered and may not be bootable once I put it into another laptop.
If this is the case, is there a way to boot to the source drive once it's installed internally?
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Gregg Kuljian wrote:I have a question after reading this from the instructions- Acronis True Image will apply a bootability fix to the new disk and adjust the boot settings of the target drive to boot from USB.
My goal is to clone my existing drive to the new drive, and have both disks bootable. Is this possible? It sounds like after the source drive is connected externally via USB, it is altered and may not be bootable once I put it into another laptop.
If this is the case, is there a way to boot to the source drive once it's installed internally?
The source drive should not be 'touched' / changed by the clone operation but the only way to guarantee this is to forget about using cloning and to use Backup & Recovery instead as that way you can remove the source drive and store it in a cupboard safely while booting from Acronis rescue media and restoring the backup image to the new drive installed internally in its intended usage location.
I have mainly been using laptops for some years and very rarely, if ever, use cloning. This is more so since my latest laptop has a PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD (card drive) which I have upgraded several times since I got it. See forum topic: Steve migrate NVMe SSD where I have documented (with images) the process that I have used multiple times for my own laptops using Backup & Recovery.
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