Clone Utility: Acronis Loader Fatal Error: Boot Drive Partition Not Found - Press <enter> to try to boot your OS
I'm trying to clone a Kingston SSD drive to a larger one and when the system reboots I get the above error.
The primary drive isn't Disk0, it's Disk1 - does that make a difference?
I'm running Windows 7 64 bit, Intel I7
None of the messages I've read (yet) have given me something to work with here, I have the OEM version of ATI and that doesn't give me the ISO download option to use.
Any help here would be much appreciated.


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This doesn't make sense, the cloning process has not occurred yet. It starts, calculates something, reboots the system and then gives the above error.
BTW - I wonder if installing the software on a secondary drive has introduced this problem. Because the boot drive is so full I couldn't install ATI on it.
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FWIW - I changed out the install disk so that ATI was on the boot drive - that didn't solve the problem either.
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The clone process from Windows installation works in the following manner, once the clone task is setup the app calculates the transfer of the task as specified by the user. This should not take long at all with an i7 machine and SSD disks. Once that is done the application then reboots the machine and attempts to load the app under a Linux based version of the app to actually perform the clone process. This is where you are getting the error. The message is telling you that the Linux boot loader cannot find the boot partition specified in the task. I would suspect that this may be due to the source disk not being attached to port 0. Change that and attempt again.
If you have already tried this and it did not work then if your machine boots under EFI Secure Boot you should disable that feature before running the clone task.
Be advised that we here on the Forum recommend that users perform a full disk backup of all partitions including hidden partitions and validate and test such backups prior to attempting a clone task.
I totally misunderstood your first post but I believe I do understand it now.
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I've changed the SSD drive to be Drive 0 now and the problem continues. I'll look to see if my system uses EFI (UEFI?) Secure boot. It's a Asus motherboard with a ton of settings, I guess that's possible.
I've done backups of the drive but in theory, isn't cloning a method of backing up?
Thanks for the help - hopefully this problem can be resolved or I guess I'll have to find some other software to clone the drive with.
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Clone and backup are not quite the same. Cloning produces a bit for bit copy of a source disk to a target disk. Create backup and restore of that backup to a disk achieves mostly the same end result but is a process of doing so from an archived backup file instead of a direct transfer of data.
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Yes, I understand that difference however I don't see how that pertains to the problem I've encountered. Thanks.
I had a theory that ATI might be using the Windows' temp directory - which wasn't on the boot drive, but that was not the case either. The problem persists.
Very disappointing, you would think something so basic would be fairly straight forward.
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FWIW - when I start the clone process the dialog for it pops up, with a progress bar and underneath that is the "Estimated time left: calculating..."
However it never gives the estimate and then the Warning dialog pops up and says Computer restart is required.
Just seems like the restart is jumping the gun or the code for doing the estimate is flawed.
I solved the problem - or I should say I was able to get the software to clone the drive. I think the clone problem stems from having ATI 2011 installed - I did so when when I got the first SSD drive years ago. It was still installed and when I installed the 2014 OEM ATI and the newer version must have gotten confused by what software to use.
I had to manually uninstall ATI via Regedit because the automated uninstall didn't remove ATI 2011.
Once I did that, did a super fresh install of 2014 - the cloning process worked and I'm now up and running. Obviously the lastest version of the software has conflicts with older installs.
Anyway, this is how I solved this problem here.
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Estimated time calculation has never been that accurate. The computer restart is normal, the warning however is not. Did you check for the Secure Boot option in your bios yet?
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I solved the problem - or I should say I was able to get the software to clone the drive. I think the clone problem stems from having ATI 2011 installed - I did so when when I got the first SSD drive years ago. It was still installed and when I installed the 2014 OEM ATI and the newer version must have gotten confused by what software to use.
I had to manually uninstall ATI via Regedit because the automated uninstall didn't remove ATI 2011.
Once I did that, did a super fresh install of 2014 - the cloning process worked and I'm now up and running. Obviously the lastest version of the software has conflicts with older installs.
Anyway, this is how I solved this problem here.
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