Price protection, price matching or price guarantees do not apply to Intra-day, Daily Deals or limited-time promotions. 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.Prices, specifications, availability and terms of offers may change without notice. 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:

See KB 56634: Acronis True Image: how to clone a disk - and review the step by step guide given there. KB 65539: Acronis True Image 2021: How to restore your computer with WinPE-based or WinRE-based media The latter, in my opinion, is much safer than cloning as the source disk drive is removed and replaced by the new disk drive, so is safe from any error or change. Once you have a full disk backup (ideally on an external USB HDD) you have the option of either still choosing to clone the drive or else you can use Recovery instead. KB 65468: Acronis True Image 2021: how to back up entire computer

KB 65520: Acronis True Image 2021: how to back up files or disks See KB 65508: Acronis True Image 2021: how to create bootable media and KB 59877: Acronis True Image: how to distinguish between UEFI and Legacy BIOS boot modes of Acronis Bootable Mediaīefore attempting any clone operation it is highly recommended to make a full disk backup of the source drive - this is your safety net in case of any issues arising.

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