Microsoft do not allow Windows to be booted from USB devices hence why your SSD in an external USB case did not work.

When all is completed, remove the rescue media and storage drive, then close the Acronis application to cause the laptop to restart.

Boot the laptop from the rescue media with your external storage drive also connected.ĥ. Remove the HDD from the laptop and set it aside for safety, then install the new SSD in place of the HDD.Ĥ. This is your safety net in case cloning goes wrong or mistakes are made etc.ģ. Make a full disk backup of the working HDD to an external storage drive. Create the Acronis rescue media on a USB stick, then test that you understand how to boot your laptop using that rescue media.Ģ. My personal recommendation would be as follows:ġ. the new disk to which you clone, and from which you intend to boot the machine) in a bay, and not physically inside the laptop, the target hard disk will be unbootable after the cloning. As such, hard disk bays cannot be used for target disks. For example, if you have a target hard disk (i.e. 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: Please see KB 56634: Acronis True Image: how to clone a disk - and review the step by step guide given there. See KB 2201: Support for OEM Versions of Acronis Products which applies to all OEM versions of ATI supplied with hardware purchases. Sofia, welcome to these public User Forums. In fact, I tried to boot from the SSD as USB device, but it does not work (the SSD appears in the boot menu and I modified the boot order to no avail)

So, I'm not sure my clone is actually bootable. However, the step (in the instructions) where I tell True Image I want to 'replace a disk on this machine' is missing. I want to to replace my HDD and, therefore, the SSD must be able to boot.It appears I have a very limited version of the SW: only cloning (and a few related features are allowed): this is not accounted for in the Manual.Mismatching instructions is always an issue: I eventually succeeded in downloading and installing the SW (hard time: instructions do not match reality), making the new disk (hosted in the external USB case) visible to Windows, making the new disk visible and usable by Acronis and cloning the original HDD. The SSD came with a kit which included the Activation Key for True Image OEM. I just purchased a SSD to replace the HDD of my laptop.

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