

If the new disk is inside the laptop, the boot settings will be automatically adjusted to boot from internal disk. Otherwise you will may not be able to boot from the new cloned drive, as 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. It is recommended to put the new drive in the laptop first, and connect the old drive via USB. Note: the first section of the above KB document directs laptop users to KB 2931: How to clone a laptop hard drive - and has the following paragraph: KB 56634: Acronis True Image: how to clone a disk - and review the step by step guide given there. See KB 59877: Acronis True Image: how to distinguish between UEFI and Legacy BIOS boot modes of Acronis Bootable Media Microsoft do not permit Windows to boot from external USB devices other than Windows PE used for install or rescue media. Is this Legacy / MBR where the BIOS boot device is the actual disk drive name / make? Is this UEFI / GPT where the BIOS boot device is 'Windows Boot Manager'? How does your Windows 10 OS boot from the BIOS? Is this a desktop / tower or a laptop / notebook type PC?

Was this from within Windows using the ATI 2018 Active Cloning feature?ĭid you boot from the Acronis Rescue Media to clone offline from Windows? What process did you use for cloning the drive? Marty, welcome to these public User Forums.
