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Cloned Drive - Windows Boots in Repair Mode

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Hi

I bought a new SSD drive to replace my laptop HDD. The sabrent connector came with Acronis True Image. I used the clone function which seems to have completed successfully. Before changing the HDD with the new SDD i wanted to check that the SDD loads windows. The SDD is connected via a USB cable and in the boot options i instructed the computer to load from the USB device. Everytime i do that the the computer says repairing windows and ends up restarting and reverting back to the HDD to load. 

I can't switch the hard drives alone so have to pay someone to do it. Before I do that i want to check if the reason the SDD isn't loading is because its connected via USB? Or will the above problem persist even if I replace the HDD with an SDD and remove teh HDD entirely - because in such a scenario i won't have a workable computer. 

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Guy, welcome to these public User Forums.

Microsoft do not permit Windows to be booted from an external USB device so your wish to test the new cloned SSD before installing it in the laptop will not work.

The other potential issue here is in cloning a laptop internal drive to an external USB attached SSD, as this is not guaranteed to be bootable!

Please see KB 56634: Acronis True Image: how to clone a disk - and review the step by step guide given there.

Note: the first section of the above KB document directs laptop users to KB 2931: How to clone a laptop hard drive - and has the following paragraph:

It is recommended to put the new drive in the laptop first, and connect the old drive via USB. Otherwise you may not be able to boot from the new cloned drive, as 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. If the new disk is inside the laptop, the boot settings will be automatically adjusted to boot from internal disk. As such, hard disk bays cannot be used for target disks. For example, if you have a target hard disk (i.e. the new disk to which you clone, and from which you intend to boot the machine) in a bay, and not physically inside the laptop, the target hard disk will be unbootable after the cloning.