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Problem Cloning a Solid State Drive

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Using ATIH 2012 to clone a 256GB SSD (Drive C) to a 500GB SATA drive (Drive D) using manual settings to resize the SATA into a 256GB active partition and an unallocated partition.
After the partitions were deleted and resized and the operation began I got some error messages about no data to read in numerous delineated sectors. The process continued when I selected Retry.
The process continued until I got a completed message and then shutdown the computer.
When starting the computer, nothing came up on the screen. Tried 2x and nothing.
Next reboot went to BIOS and both drives were recognized and the boot sequence was to SSD as Drive C.
I changed the boot sequence to SATA drive (Drive D) as the boot drive. Rebooted system and voila! It booted to Windows.
When I looked at Windows Disk Management, Drive D was shown as the two partitions that were set during the beginning of the cloning. But, the SSD drive now showed at all unallocated and Windows Explorer recognized only the SATA and not SSD.
What just happened?
Is the SSD drive recoverable and if so how?

Thanks in advance.

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From your description, I'm unclear what happened. But, if the SATA now contains everything that was on the SSD and is bootable, do you care? It seems that you achieved what you set out to do.

FYI:
Clone should be used only by advanced users who know what they are doing. It is riskier and can result in a loss of data and a failed system. Create a full disk mode backup and restore it, using the bootable Rescue Media, to the new disk, as it's far safer.

Which verson of Windows?
It sounds like you did the process via Windows. Try booting from the TI Recovery CD.
After performing a clone or restore where you have two disks with identical systems, it is important for this not to happen.
First boot after clone or restore should be with only the boot disk connected.

Any retry should be to an emtpy SSD (all un-allocated space.

YOu could also do a backup of your system and restore the backup inoto a pre-prepped disk which already has the partitions formed and has the correct amouint of free space before the first partition.

It might help to see a picture of your Windows Disk Management graphical view.