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No Diagnostic partition found after swapping clone drive

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I cloned windows 7 system HD to new WD HD with Acronis and swapped them and Dell T3400 boots to screen saying drive not found. Pressing F1 lets me bypass and it will boot normally to the new cloned disk. The missing drive is the system reserved partition on the new disk. The old Disk (E:) and System reserve (D:) are the old disk. Everything worked normally after the clone it booted normally this only happened after the drives were swapped. Windows Disk management shows the partition exists but there is no dive letter next to it. Dell diagnostics boot test reports no diagnostic partition found. Also when I did the clone the system did show all 4 drive letters, 2 system reserve, and 2 actual physical disks. now only showing 3. I would like to power up and not have to press F1 to boot, any help appreciated.

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This type issue is often caused by having both disks attached during the first boot following the clone. Windows gets confused when two identical disks are connected.

Disconnect the cable on the old disk.
Make sure the new disk is attached to the same connecters (disk 0) as the original disk.
During boot attempt, go iinto the bios and specifically select the disk 0 or thenew disk as the boot disk. Only the single new disk data cable should be connected.

Attempt to boot with only the new disk attached.
If failure continues, use your Windows Installation/ Recovery CD and so a Startup repair with only the new disk connected. The use of a Startup Repair may require two passes.

On most systems, the System Recovery partition is NOT drive lettered. The drive letter can be removed in Windows Disk managment. The System Recovery partition is usually the ACT(ive) partition.