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Hello, just installed a new SSD and built a new computer. I used my HDD from my old computer and when i try to do the cloning now it says it will restart my computer. And i just boots like it normally does, and ends up in my normal boot. ? 

 

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Mats, welcome to these user forums.

There are several potential issues with what you are attempting to do here which go beyond the ability to clone a disk drive to a SSD.

From your post above, you are also migrating a Windows OS drive from your old computer to a new build computer, this cannot be done just by cloning, as you are actually migrating the OS to new hardware which then requires the use of Acronis Universal Restore to prepare the migrated OS to work on different hardware.

Dealing just with cloning, you look to be attempting to do the clone from within Windows, which is not recommended even though the Acronis application allows you to choose to do this!

The correct process for cloning should be as follows:

  1. Make a full disk backup of your current working Windows OS HDD to an external backup drive
  2. Identify how your Windows OS boots, see webpage: Check if your PC uses UEFI or BIOS - this is important for the next step.
  3. Create the Acronis bootable Rescue Media - shutdown your system and boot this Rescue Media in the same way that Windows boots.
    Check that the Rescue Media will boot correctly and that you can access the Acronis application and see your HDD.
  4. Shutdown, remove the current HDD drive and replace this with the SSD drive installed inside the system.
    Connect the HDD drive externally using a USB to SATA adapter.
  5. Boot the system from the Acronis bootable Rescue Media (as in step 3.) and check that you can now see both the SSD (internal) and HDD (external) drives.
  6. Perform the clone operation from the HDD (Source) to the SSD (Target) drive.
  7. Shutdown, remove the external HDD drive and Rescue media.  
    Note: Do NOT attempt to boot into Windows with both drives connected - these now have identical drive signatures / contents and will cause problems with Windows if you do so!
    Note 2: Check your BIOS / EFI settings to ensure the SSD is shown as the correct boot device / priority.
  8. Restart the system with just the cloned SSD drive and check that all is OK with Windows starting.  Put the HDD drive to one side until you are confident that all is OK and you no longer need the HDD.  Connect this via the USB to SATA adapter and format / repartition within Windows when you want to re-use the HDD for another purpose. 

 

So i can't use acronis just by cloning in windows? That would been much easier, i dont have a external memory... so than i cant do it i guess

 

Mats, all cloning will be done outside of Windows when the Windows OS is being cloned.  Even when you start the clone from within Windows the system has to be rebooted into a temporary Linux OS to do the clone.  The problem with taking this approach is that Acronis has to modify the Windows boot loader configuration in order to create that temporary Linux OS environment and this doesn't always work on system with UEFI and Secure Boot BIOS.

The Acronis bootable Rescue Media can be created on CD/DVD or USB memory stick - a 1GB memory stick would be more than large enough.

The other difficulty with your request here is that you cannot just clone your old HDD to a SSD drive and expect that it will work on your new computer hardware.  There are a lot more considerations to take into account before the SSD might be able to boot.

Do both your old and new computer systems have the ability to boot in the same boot loader way, i.e. both use Legacy/MBR or both UEFI?

Do both your old and new computer systems use the same disk controller, i.e. AHCI?

Do you have the device drivers needed by the new computer to be installed into the old OS you are migrating, including chipset and disk controller drivers.

Steve's points are all valid.  Plus, what type of OS license do you have on the original system?  If it's retail then it should license on the new system once the OS is cloned and Universal restore is run to generalize the drivers (assuming you've followed all of Steve's other notes).  But, if you're trying to take an OEM license from your original computer and put it on another one, it won't activate properly as OEM licenses are typed to the motherboard of the original system it was installed on.