Clone disk problems - my PC is currently a brick! PLEASE HELP!
I connected a 256GB SSD via USB and started Tools & Utilities -> Clone disk in automatic mode.
I selected the 128GB system disk as source and the 256GB SSD as destination and started.
The PC rebooted and some Acronis bootware started and did the cloning. It all seemingly went well and I shut down the PC, put the newly cloned SSD into the PC and booted up again.
But what happens is that the Acronis boot utility started instead of Windows and wanted to do the cloning again! It seems as if the new disk was cloned with the cloning software booting! I shust down the PC, put in the old HD and booted, but again the Acronis cloning software started.
Now I got really scared and though maybe I had prematurely shut down the PC or something, so hooked up the new 256GB SSD axectly as when I did the cloning - just so that the cloning procedure might restart and finish proberly. But, alas, now the acronis cloning software does not find the 256GB SSD (hooked on by USB) at all.
I think the new disk is cloned ok, but how can I get rid of the acronis boot?
So right now I've got a useless PC. PLEASE HELP!


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Hi,
Yes, was that wrong? Is Acronis software incompatible with laptops?
The cloning itself wasn't done within Windows as such as the PC booted and ran some Acronis boot utility.
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All clone and OS restore operations are not performed from within Windows. If you execute either a full OS disk restore or a clone operation the machine will reboot into an instance of Linux wherein the TI app will load to perform the requested task.
If you were to perform such tasks on a live booted drive then it is likely that corruption would follow. The documentation and all MVP's suggest that you do not attempt either of these functions with Windows booted on the machine. You should instead do so with the machine booted from the bootable media disk which you should have created either from within the application or from the bootable media file downloaded from your account on the support page. Further, we strongly suggest that a full disk mode backup of your OS system disk be performed and validated prior to performing a clone task for the instance that you now face.
If you have a Windows install disk my suggestion would be to replace the original drive back into the machine, change your bios to boot from the install disk and then once booted run the install repair routine. Maybe you will be fortunate enough to regain your system.
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Enchantech wrote:The documentation and all MVP's suggest that you do not attempt either of these functions with Windows booted on the machine. You should instead do so with the machine booted from the bootable media disk which you should have created either from within the application or from the bootable media file downloaded from your account on the support page. Further, we strongly suggest that a full disk mode backup of your OS system disk be performed and validated prior to performing a clone task for the instance that you now face.
Aha... well I must admit I didn't read all the documentation. I guess I just had faith in such a known company as Acronis that they would never let me do anyting that would guarantee a corruption of my system. Not without thoroughly warn me. This is almost unbelieveable... I write software myself and would never get away with anything like this!
As for the "Windows booted on the machine" thing. The last time I migrated to a larger SSD on the very same machine I used som tool that came with the HD. No problem doing that with Windows booted on the machine....
Enchantech wrote:If you have a Windows install disk my suggestion would be to replace the original drive back into the machine, change your bios to boot from the install disk and then once booted run the install repair routine. Maybe you will be fortunate enough to regain your system.
I'll do an attempt.
Thanks for the help. Still a bit shocked though...
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