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12-18-2010, 04:19 PM
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Backup Hard Drive Question
I'm not sure this question is in the right spot, so if it's not feel free to move it. I have a question about cloning a hard drive for backup purposes. I have just cloned my hard drive with Acronis. The hard drive is a SSD hard drive and I cloned it to a conventional seagate drive in a usb adaptor. All went well and I think that the hard drive was indeed cloned. But, when I go into the bios and set it to boot from the usb hard drive (the clone), it won't boot. Am using Windows 7 64.
Does anyone know why? It sort of defeats the purpose if it won't boot. I haven't tried installing it in the computer and booting, but it seems to me that it should boot from the usb connection. |
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12-18-2010, 06:25 PM
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What model Seagate?
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12-19-2010, 04:43 AM
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You should disconnect the SSD and hook the cloned drive as an internal drive to test...
Or you could try disconnecting the SSD and look in the BIOS for an option to make the exterrnal drive the firt drive in the boot sequence.
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12-19-2010, 08:26 AM
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Connect the cloned drive into the same SATA motherboard connector as you had your SSD drive connected to. Leave your SSD disconnected.
Is your cloned drive being recognized in the BIOS?
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