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Disc to Disc clone will not boot

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Acronis True Image 2014 used to create a bootable USB stick.

PC is a Dell XPS 8700.
New 250GB SSD.
OS has been installed as Windows 7 Pro 64 bit.

The BIOS has two areas of interest.
One is where you can select AHCI / RAID. Selecting AHCI and the Windows 7 install bootable CD will not complete booting. I have to select RAID.
The second is in the Boot configuration. It lets me select between UHCI and Legacy boot modes. I selected UHCI, and then selected Internal ODD as first boot device and Internal HDD as the second.
The BIOS Boot screen also lets me turn on or off Secure Boot. I have no idea what this is, it's not needed to it's turned off. (it has "security keys" installed that I assume are linked to the pre-installed Windows 8 that is no longer there, so these are cleared)

Boot Win 7 install DVD, install, update, install the other required software, all OK.

This PC now boots into Win 7 and everything works.

I connect another 250GB SSD, plug the USB stick in and boot this PC from that. Run Acronis and start True Image.

Tell it to do a full disc copy from the 250GB drive that Windows is installed on to the new blank 250GB drive.

Acronis says it has completed OK.

Remove the second drive, install in another new PC (same model, BIOS set up the same) and the BIOS says there is no bootable media anywhere.

PCs are the same, BIOS settings are the same, SSDs are the same.

Why won't Acronis True Image clone the HDD correctly?

I'm currently trying Clonezilla in sector by sector mode to see if that will do it.

Richard Wood

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Does that 2nd HDD work in the 1st PC?
I wonder is ATIH has converted the HDD to GTP, which the BIOS does not recognise.

This is a laptop machine? Your source and destination disks need to be installed in reverse order of what you describe .