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Unable to boot with SSD (Win.10)

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        Ok, so I recently got a PNY CS1311 240 GB SSD and decided to download acronis true image 15 since I could clone my HD to my SSD with it using the Serial number. I cloned everything and everything seemed fine. I went to the bios in order to change boot order and boot priority and the hard drive and SSD both showed as Windows so I thought everything was fine by making the SSD first and prioritized. When I went to login in into my computer I got this error message that is "unable to read reference memory 0x000" or something like that and when I went back to change it to the Hard drive as boot drive everything was fine. I allocated the SSD because I thought that was the problem and still didn't let me boot. I asked my friend for help and he told me to get rid of the hard drive and leave the SSD so it would boot from the SSD only, but only the Hard drive showed up, which he thought was weird. Something to note is that whenever I'm in my folders the HD has the windows logo while the SSD doesn't. Also I'm not very knowledgable about SSDs so I'm sorry If I'm missing something really obvious.

 

        Sincerely,  Lion

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Lion, sorry but you are making a fundamental error in your approach here.

A clone of your HDD drive to your new SSD drive creates an identical, duplicate image of the HD contents on the SSD as you would expect.

It also duplicates the disk signature of the HDD drive and writes this on the SSD - so now you have two disks with the identical disk signature - which Windows does not like!

Further more, you have now moved the SSD to a different location than the HDD was connected to, so now the Boot Configuration Data you copied from the HDD to the SSD no long is correct to allow the SSD to boot in that different location.

Please see KB document: 56634: Acronis True Image 2016: Cloning Disks which shows the correct method of doing this clone operation.

Please try doing the following:

1. Remove the HDD.

2. Move the SSD to connect exactly where the HDD was connected.

3.  Boot the SSD to confirm that this will now start up correctly with the BCD configuration now pointing correct to the boot controller / cable it had for the HDD.

If the above does not resolve this, then please follow the above KB guide and repeat the clone.