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cloned disk, now programs load slowly and need to be reauthorized

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Hi! I cloned my old WD 500 GB hard disk with Windows 10 and all my programs on it to a new 1 TB WD hard disk. The new disk boots fine, but many of my programs take forever to load and some of them need to be reauthorized. I am also getting a lot of blue screen system crashes. Why is this happening? Isn't the new disk an exact clone of the old disk? I plugged the original hard drive back in and it works fine. I'm stumped.

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Griffin, welcome to these User forums.

I am not aware of any issues that are specific to cloning that should make your programs load slowly though if some applications need to be reauthorised, this may be because the disk signature has changed and the application activation is based partially on this signature.

What version & build of Acronis True Image did you use to clone the disks, how did you perform the cloning, how is the cloned drive connected inside your computer?

Please see topic: [IMPORTANT] CLONING - How NOT to do this!!! which deals with a number of the known issues associated with cloning drives.