Acronis Disk Clone has knackered my PC up!

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hi,

I've just made a successful clone with acronis true image. I plugged in the source SATA hard drive and a brand newd SATA hard drive and copied from one to the other.

However, when I took both drives out of my PC and left my ssd (OS) drive in it booted up and before the win8 logon screen it the screen just goes blank.

the monitor light is blue as opposed to orange (orange signifies no signal)... so I have no idea what's going on.

Anyone encountered this problem before?
 
So he's put in two SATA mechanical drives, but had an SSD in during the cloning process. At least that's how I read it.

Never tried that TBH, always only ever had a source drive and copied that one to a newly connected drive when cloning drive to drive regardless of product.

Would also back up Stelly's recommendation of Macrium Reflect for this although it's a bit late now. Perhaps try booting off the W8 DVD to see if it'll repair?
 
Halfmad said:
So he's put in two SATA mechanical drives, but had an SSD in during the cloning process. At least that's how I read it.

Never tried that TBH, always only ever had a source drive and copied that one to a newly connected drive when cloning drive to drive regardless of product.

Would also back up Stelly's recommendation of Macrium Reflect for this although it's a bit late now. Perhaps try booting off the W8 DVD to see if it'll repair?
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this. in retrospect stupid to leave my own drive in...
 
To be fair it shouldn't mess up the other drive, I do know Acronis inspects each drive to determine if it can be cloned to/from but never hear of it writing or damaging data on one that wasn't involved in the cloning process.
 
I couldn't get Reflect to correctly clone a drive :-( Was a complete pain in the ass, and I tried several different ways. Annoyingly I couldn't use Acronis (which normally works), as this PC only had 2 sata connections and I needed the WD plugged in to get my version to work (Pooh sticks!)

As for Reflect, it just absolutely refused to boot with it after cloning :-( In the end just formatted and put on Windows 7 normally.
 
The strange thing is that it seems to have completely knocked out or affected my bios in some way.

I can't even access the bios now - this is even after taking my ssd out and leaving no hdds in the PC.

also pressed the 'clr cmos' button on the back of my mobo and still no joy.

I'm pressing del at upon system boot and it just then displays a blank screen.

i can see advanced system repair properties though and am dithering whether its worth doing a system refresh - i know that deletes apps but would it delete programs i've installed like 'fl studio' ?
 
try a battery out cmos clear,youll see the battery in the motherboard,leave it out a good few minutes

acronis plays up if trying to clone/image win8 unless your using latest version of acronis

far more reliable to clone the drives than image backup imo
 
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