Cloned SSD Wont Boot to Windows. Automatic repair.
I recently bought a new 1tb nvme ssd drive to replace my laptop’s 128gb ssd. This drive is the main boot drive containing a couple applications and the os. It clones successfully but whenever i go to boot my laptop it always send me to the windows repair screen. Ive gone through countless pages and threads. Tried every solution to no avail. Please help!!!


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Hi thanks for the response! I bought a usb adapter for my 128gb ssd. Installed my new nmve drive and ran the acronis bootable via usb. Once i got to the cloning screen, i pressed automatic, but the source drive (128gb via usb) wasnt visible. However it was visible in the bios menu. How can i get past this? Im running out of ideas and tired of spending money on this lol
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Noah, instead of using Cloning, you can use backup and recovery to achieve the same end result which then does not require the use of any adapters.
First create the ATI 2020 Rescue Media using the Acronis Rescue Media Builder tool Simple method which will create the WinPE version of the media on either a USB stick or DVD disc.
Next, create a full Disks & Partitions backup image of your working source 128GB SSD and store this on a backup drive.
Run the msinfo32 command from the Windows desktop and check the BIOS mode used by your Windows OS to boot. If this shows as anything other than UEFI, then you will need to check that your BIOS is able to use UEFI mode as this is required for booting from your NVMe drive.
Shutdown the computer fully by pressing / holding the Shift key while clicking on Shutdown - this is needed to ensure you are not going into hybrid sleep / hibernation mode.
Remove the 128GB SSD drive and install the new NVMe drive.
Boot from the ATI Rescue Media in UEFI mode with your backup drive connected then do a Disk level recovery of your backup image to the NVMe drive.
Note: you may need to use the Tools > Add new disk option to prepare the NVMe drive for the recovery.
When doing the restore of your backup, this needs to be done as a Disk & Partition restore and at the top Disk selection level.
Please see forum topic: [How to] recover an entire disk backup - and in particular the attached PDF document which shows a step-by-step tutorial for doing this type of recovery / restore.
When the restore is complete, then shutdown again, remove the rescue media & backup drive, leave the 128GB SSD removed then try booting into Windows from the NVMe drive.
If there are any problems, then check the BIOS boot settings that the 'Windows Boot Manager' is selected as the UEFI boot device.
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Will do thanks. Can I use Acronis cloud storage as my backup drive? also how big is the Rescue Media file?
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Noah, I would not recommend using the Acronis Cloud for this purpose as it is the slowest of the storage mediums, an external USB HDD would be the fastest method and doesn't require establishing any network connections.
The Rescue Media will fit on a 2GB USB stick or DVD disc. USB sticks should be 32GB size or smaller to be bootable due to Microsoft limitations.
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That worked! Thank you! I had to restart my PC a few times but it worked!
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Good to read of success! Thank you for sharing your feedback.
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