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Cloning fails after reboot

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I am trying to use the cloning feature to clone the HD from the original 500GB HD to a new formatted 1TB HD. After being prompted by the cloning process to restart the machine, Acronis begins to load then stops with a message "Acronis bootable agent is waiting for removable devices, select Yes to wait, No to resume or Cancel to stop", but the problem here is two-fold. (1) both the mouse and the keyboard are inactive and therefore won't allow me to select Yes, No or Cancel and there is no way to escape this mode without a hard shutdown using the computer power switch. (2) I did in fact find removable devices that showed up under My computer as drives G, H, I & L so I disabled them and removed them from BIOS startup and they disappeared as planned. However, after a shutdown, reboot and startup of Acronis cloning process again the same error message appeared and once again, the keyboard and mouse are still inactive even after trying numerous ways to get them work (even tried the old keyboard/mouse connections on the back instead of the current USB configuration). I have a 2008 ACER AM3641 desktop running Windows Vista 64-bit and only two HDs installed with everything else on the machine unplugged.

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Only clone the drive containg the OS from the recovery CD, don't try using it from within Windows, it can often cause problems.

If you find that when booted from the CD the mouse doesn't respond, then report back here.

If your Acer is a laptop, you might get a better result by removing the current hard drive and placing that into the external caddy and place your new drive into the laptop and reverse clone, again booting from the recovery CD. Make sure the old drive is disconnected before rebooting into the new drive.