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cloning C drive to ssd; no boot to boot disk and win 8

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On my HP envy notebook..am not able to clone my C drive to my new SSD......nothing happens...says will restart but when restarting then nothing....but goes back to start menu. Also cannot get my computer to boot to the boot disk...just sits there and retries and retries.....

Running Win 8

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Don,

What build of TI 013 are you using?

Do you get the same problem when booting from the recovery CD or USB stick? Cloning a drive that contains the OS is best done from external media than from within Windows.

You might find you need to 'reverse' clone whereby you place the new disk into the notebook and the old drive into the external caddy and clone that way.

I have to say that if you have a 3rd drive available making a complete disk image and recovering that to another drive is a safer and better way to go than cloning, it is more forgiving of any user errors and can be more flexible.