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2nd HDD gone after clone & boot from new drive
I used Acronis True Image (WD edition) to clone my old HDD. For cloning, old_HDD was drive 0, new_HDD was drive 1. Before cloning, both drives were visible in Disk Manager. After cloning, I disabled drive 0 (old_HDD) in setup (F2). The system booted on drive 1 (new_HDD).
I next connected new_HDD as drive 0, and booted again. This too worked.
I then connected old_HDD as drive 1 and re-enabled it in Setup (F2). After booting, old_HDD/drive 1 is nowhere to be seen: Disk Manager just shows new_HDD/drive 0. I have re-booted a couple of times, with the same results.
Additional info:
- The drives are the same: WD5000 SATA
- I had a lot of trouble getting a bootable clone. I think this was because the current True Image WD edition "does not provide a booting feature" I 'succeeded' when using an old (2013?) version, running from a USB flash drive.