Acronis cloned SSD doesn't boot up. Stuck at "Repairing disk errors"
I wanted to upgrade my Laptop's internal SSD with a higher storage, So I brought a Crucial SSD which came with the Acronis Cloning software. I cloned the existing SSD to the new SSD through USB NVMe reader.
The cloning was successful, but when I replace the old SSD with the new SSD which contains the cloned data, it doesn't boot up. It's stuck at the initial screen saying "Repairing disk errors. This might take over an hour to complete." I waited for 4 hours but then too it's stuck in the same. Please suggest how I can solve this.


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The above advice from Steve Smith reflects my own thoughts. Backup and restore is preferable. If you want to persist with cloning make backup first to be on the safe side.
Ian
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Hi All
My problem is that I have done exactly what Joshua has done and now I find myself with the "repairing dik error '' issue, would I be right to assume that I have to start again in the right order as stated here:
2931: How to clone a laptop hard drive
"'It is recommended to put the new drive in the laptop first, and connect the old drive via USB. Otherwise you will may not be able to boot from the new cloned drive, at Acronis True Image will apply a bootability fix to the new disk and adjust the boot settings of the target drive to boot from USB. If the new disk is inside the laptop, the boot settings will be automatically adjusted to boot from internal disk. As such, hard disk bays cannot be used for target disks. For example, if you have a target hard disk (i.e. the new disk to which you clone, and from which you intend to boot the machine) in a bay, and not physically inside the laptop, the target hard disk will be unbootable after the cloning''
If that is the case it would make my new SSD unusable with a unbootable version of Windows. Would the next step be erase data/format (best way to do it?) and start again or is there another way. Any help would be greatly appreciate.
I used : Acronis True Image for Western Digital
Release Date: 9/8/2021
Thanks in advance
Wdl
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Wdl, welcome to these public User Forums.
See KB 2201: Support for OEM Versions of Acronis Products which applies to all OEM versions of ATI supplied with hardware purchases.
See forum topic: Steve migrate NVMe SSD where I have documented (with images) the process that I have used multiple times for my own laptops using Backup & Recovery.
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I have got rid of the problem by using startup repair.
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Robert Smith wrote:I have got rid of the problem by using startup repair.
Hello Robert!
Thanks for updating the thread.
If you need additional support feel free to contact.
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Steve Smith wrote:Wdl, welcome to these public User Forums.
See KB 2201: Support for OEM Versions of Acronis Products which applies to all OEM versions of ATI supplied with hardware purchases.
See forum topic: Steve migrate NVMe SSD where I have documented (with images) the process that I have used multiple times for my own laptops using Backup & Recovery.
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I used Macrium Reflect Free to successfully clone a HDD to my Crucial SSD and then swap them. This was after encountering the noted failure using Acronis.
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I had absolutely the same problem : clone ok with Acronis true backup, but after disk swap, errors detected, repair procedure, lasting hours and finaly stuck at reboot.
I also was unable to reformat the disk, because when connecting with usb, the disk is visible but unaccessible (with disk management, with diskpart, ...)
I reformated it by using an android device (connect the disk, detected as corrupted, ask for format, and format it)
I gave a try to Macrium Reflect Free Home as i saw the answer in this topic and... it worked well !
Clone OK, swap and reboot, all perfect, nothing to do (i am using windows 10, the disk is a crucial ssd 500mx)
It seems that Acronis true backup has problem with coling some information or dealing with bootable device or i don't know what...
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I had absolutely the same problem : clone ok with Acronis true backup, but after disk swap, errors detected, repair procedure, lasting hours and finaly stuck at reboot.
I also was unable to reformat the disk, because when connecting with usb, the disk is visible but unaccessible (with disk management, with diskpart, ...)
I reformated it by using an android device (connect the disk, detected as corrupted, ask for format, and format it)
I gave a try to Macrium Reflect Free Home as i saw the answer in this topic and... it worked well !
Clone OK, swap and reboot, all perfect, nothing to do (i am using windows 10, the disk is a crucial ssd 500mx)
It seems that Acronis true backup has problem with coling some information or dealing with bootable device or i don't know what...
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